Cucumber

The cucumber plant is a tender annual with a rough, succulent, trailing stem. The plant has hairy leaves with three to five pointed lobes and bears branched tendrils by which the plant can be trained to supports. The five-petaled yellow flowers are unisexual and produce a type of berry known as a pepo. Cucumber is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the Cucurbitaceae gourd family that bears cucumiform fruits, which are used as vegetables.