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.
Description
Green, hairy vines with tendrils and palmate leaves. Flowers are yellow and unisexual.
Growing conditions
Moist but well-drained and fertile soils, full sun. Vines are often trained to grow on trellises or wires.
Pests and diseases
Bacterial Wilt
Powdery Mildew:
- Erisyphe cichoracearum
- Sphaerotheca fuliginea
Cucurbit Downy Mildew:
- Pseudoperonospora cubensis
Cucumber Scab:
- Cladosporium cucumerinum
Blights:
- Phytophthora capsici
- Sclerotium rolfsii
Mosaic
- Cucumber Mosaic Virus
- 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
References
- P. D. Strausbaugh and Earl L. Core (1977). Flora of West Virginia (Second ed.). Seneca Books, Grantsville, W. Virginia. pp. 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. pp. 342.
- Cranshaw, Whitney (2004). Garden Insects of North America: The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs. Princeton University Press. pp. 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 ed.). Dorling Kindersley (DK) Publishing, inc.. pp. 121.
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