it is wrapping around the rigging and thin having spiraling tendrils. It has large leaves, and form canopy over fruit. Fruit is cylindrical roughly, elongated with the tapered ends; it may be large as 60 cm and 10 cm in diameter. It grown to be eaten and to get fresh taste as well as intended for pickling are similar almost. Cucumbers are eaten mainly in unripe green form; ripe yellow form becomes normally sour and too bitter.

Cucumber having enclosed seeds, these are developing from flower, and are scientifically classified as a fruit. It is much like squash and tomatoes, and their sour-bitter flavor contribute to being perceived, eaten as vegetables. There is no any conflict in classifying it as both vegetable and fruit. Few varieties are parthenocarpic, blossoms creating without pollination for these different varieties that degrade the quality. In Europe, it is also grown outdoor in the same regions, and is excluded from the areas of those regions. Thousands of hives are annually carried to the cucumber field just before the bloom for purpose.

Traditional varieties of cucumber produce blossoms first and then female in equivalent numbers. New gyneocious cultivars produce all female blossoms. Pickling it appears to be in human olfactory response to the cucumbers, having majority of the people reporting mild and almost a watery flavor or light melon taste, a small but minority report highly repugnant taste. It can be pickled for longer shelf life and a good flavor, and compared to its eating , pickling tend to be short, thicker and less regular have bumpy shin with white.