Horticulture/Cucumis
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| Genus: | Cucumis |
| Family: | Cucurbitaceae |
| Type: | Tendrilling vines |
Cucumis is a genus of plants which includes the cucumbers, melons, and gherkins. They are almost exclusively grown as food crops.
[edit] Description
Green, hairy vines with tendrils and palmate leaves. Flowers are yellow and unisexual.
[edit] Growing conditions
Moist but well-drained and fertile soils, full sun. Vines are often trained to grow on trellises or wires.
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[edit] Pests and diseases
Bacterial Wilt
Powdery Mildew:
- Erisyphe cichoracearum
- Sphaerotheca fuliginea
Cucurbit Downy Mildew:
- Pseudoperonospora cubensis
Cucumber Scab:
- Cladosporium cucumerinum
Blights:
Mosaic
- Melon Aphid: Aphis gossypii
- Greenhouse Whitefly: Trialeurodes vaporariorum
- Silverleaf Whitefly:Bemisia argentifolii
- Tarnished Plant Bug: Lygus lineolaris
- Fourlined Plant Bug: Poecilocapsus lineatus
- Melon Thrips: Thrips palmi
- Onion Thrips: Thrips tabaci
- Western Flower Thrips: Frankliniella occidentalis
- American Serpentine Leafminer: Liriomyza trifolii
- Pea Leafminer: Liriomyza huidobrensis
- Seedcorn Maggot: Delia platura
- Vegetable Leafminer: Liriomyza sativae
- Western Striped Cucumber Beetle: Acalymma trivittata
- Striped Cucumber Beetle: Acalymma vittata
- Spotted Cucumber Beetle: Diabrotica duodecimipuncta
- Western Spotted Cucumber Beetle: Diabrotica undecimipunctata
- Banded Cucumber Beetle: Diabrotica balteata
- Dusky Sap Beetle: Carpophilus lugubri
- Fourspotted Sap Beetle: Glischrochilus quadrisignatus
- Hop Flea Beetle: Psyllioides punctata
- Pale Striped Flea Beetle: Systena blanda
- Granulate Cutworm: Agrostis subterranea
- Melonworm: Diaphania hyalinata
- Pickleworm: Diaphania nitidalis
- Southern Armyworm: Spodoptera eridania
- Western Corn Rootworm: Diabrotica virgifera virgifera
- Broad Mite: Polyphagotarsonemus latus
- Two-spotted Spider Mite: Tetranychus urticae
[edit] References
- P. D. Strausbaugh and Earl L. Core (1977). Flora of West Virginia, Second, Seneca Books, Grantsville, W. Virginia, 904.
- Staff of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium (1976). Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada. Cornell University Press, 342.
- Cranshaw, Whitney (2004). Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs. Princeton University Press, 590.
- Pippa Greenwood, Andrew Halstead, A.R. Chase, Daniel Gilrein (2000). American Horticultural Society Pests & Diseases: The Complete Guide to Preventing, Identifying, and Treating Plant Problems, First Edition, Dorling Kindersley (DK) Publishing, inc., 121.
