Cucumis
sativus
cucumber
The wild species of cucumber from which all other cultivars have been derived. It is a deciduous, annual, vining plant to 2m (6A½ft) high, climbing by means of thin tendrils at the leaf nodes and producing yellow separate male and female flowers on the same plant the females after pollination, bearing the familiar, cylindrical, dark green, edible fruit, up to 40cm (16in) in length