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The cucumber is a creeping vine in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, grown as an annual for its cylindrical to spherical fruits, used as a culinary vegetable in slicing, pickling and seedless cultivar types. The species originated in South Asia, in a region spanning India, Nepal, Bangladesh and parts of southern China, and has been cultivated for at least 3,000 years, reportedly grown daily for the Roman emperor Tiberius and later cultivated by Charlemagne. Spanish explorers carried it to the Americas in 1494 as part of the Columbian exchange. Today China grows more than three quarters of the world's cucumbers, and the wild cucumbers native to North America belong to unrelated genera. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Classification

Diet

Photosynthetic Autotroph 1

System (Realm)

Terrestrial 2

Relationship to People

Farmed or Commercially Raised 1

Comparison

NatureServe Rank

GNR Unranked 3

CITES Appendix

Not Listed 4

Scientific Name

Cucumis sativus 5

Conservation Status

Not Evaluated 6

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Child Taxon Of

Source Wikidata: Cucumber

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Sources

1. Cucumber (Wikipedia)

Lead section
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, used as culinary vegetables.
lead sentence (diet), EntityId 358345
The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, used as culinary vegetables.

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2. GBIF Species API

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3. NatureServe Explorer: Cucumis sativus

NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)

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"roundedGRank": "GNR"

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4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Cucurbitaceae

UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12550

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"cites_listing":"II/NC","eu_listing":"B/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Violales","family":"Cucurbitaceae"},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Melons, gourds, cucurbits","language":"EN"},{"name":"Melones, calabazas y zapallos","language":"ES"},{"name":"Melons, gourds, concombres","language":"FR"},{"name":"葫芦科","language":"ZH"}],"cites_listings":[]

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5. Wikipedia: Cucumber

WikipediaWikidata Q23425 (P225 taxon name)View the Source

6. GBIF (IUCN Red List category): GBIF IUCN Red List category for Cucumis sativus

GBIF (IUCN Red List category)GBIF taxon key 2874569, category field

Quote, GBIF taxon key 2874569, category field

"category": "NOT_EVALUATED"

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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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Wikidata: Cucumber

Child Taxon Of: Magnoliopsida, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source

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