Cucumber are familiar with us. As the fruit is eaten raw, pecal mix , or drinks made fresh. However, the property was also a lot of cucumber. Besides able to reduce a fever in a short time, high blood and cause to fall, this vine plants can also clean the kidneys.
Cucumber raised in everywhere, whether in the fields, the home page or in the greenhouse. This plant is not resistant to rain again. Growth requires high humidity air, fertile soil that gets loose and full sun with good drainage. Cucumber should be raised to the branches and grow both from the low to 1300 m dpl. This plant is suspected of originating in the Himalaya mountain region of North India.
Plants in season, or spread creep, blond rough, wet trunked, the length 0,5-2,5 m. This plant has spiraling branches involute out on the leaf stalk. Single leaf, take location, has a rod length, egg width rounded shapes, with heart-shaped base, spire, serrated edge. 7-18 cm long, 7-15 cm wide, the color green. Flowers have a cream-colored male, and female flowers shaped like a trumpet. Long rounded fruit, grow depends, green color is white, after the old dirty yellow, length 10 - 30 cm, many contain liquids. have a lot of seeds, oval shape, dirty white color. Young leaves and stalk can be eaten raw or steamed. Fruit can be eaten raw, boiled, steamed vegetables or made. Can also be eaten or pickle. Many types of cucumber is in the market.
the variety of cucumber
such as regular cucumber, krai cucumber, wuku cucumber, poan cucumber and Watang cucumber. With seed multiplication.