| Scientific Name: | Cucumis sativus |
| Common Name: | cucumber |
| Family Name: | Cucurbitaceae |
| Origin: | South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true), Greenhouse produce plant, Vine or climber |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Very coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Herb, Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Prickly, Branching hairs, Orbicular, Ovate, Pinnately lobed, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Yellow, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Edible, Pepo, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Green, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Trailing annual vine with tendrils; leaves alternate, most blades broadly ovate to orbicular in outline, 0-5 lobes, 15-25cm long and wide, margin serrate, base cordate, texture rough; flowers yellow, rotate, solitary; male flowers clusters, on spurs or absent; pepo oblong, most varieties 5-40(-60)cm long x 2-6(-10)cm wide, skin green, thin and edible. | |