Cucumber | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-09

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Cucumber


00:00:38 1 Description
00:01:38 1.1 Flowering and pollination
00:03:12 1.2 Nutrition
00:03:38 1.3 Genome
00:03:54 2 Varieties
00:04:13 2.1 Slicing
00:05:05 2.2 Pickling
00:05:52 2.2.1 Gherkin
00:07:03 2.3 Burpless
00:10:17 2.4 Aroma and taste
00:10:44 3 Production
00:11:03 4 Cultivation history
00:11:36 4.1 Earliest cultivation
00:12:30 4.2 Roman Empire
00:14:18 4.3 Middle Ages
00:14:55 4.4 Early-modern age
00:16:27 4.5 Age of Enlightenment and later
00:17:50 5 In the news
00:18:34 6 Gallery



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SUMMARY
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Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. It is a creeping vine that bears cucumiform fruits that are used as vegetables. There are three main varieties of cucumber: slicing, pickling, and seedless. Within these varieties, several cultivars have been created.  In North America, the term "wild cucumber" refers to plants in the genera Echinocystis and Marah, but these are not closely related.  The cucumber is originally from South Asia, but now grows on most continents. Many different types of cucumber are traded on the global market.