What is cucurbitaceae?
cucurbitaceae is a family of plants that consist of 118 to 119 genera and 700 to 800 species. It is also called gourd, pumpkin or family of melon, every edible type of pouring is found in cucurbitaceae. The species are usually originally from tropical climate in South America and Africa and the droughr areas of North America and Europe.
Most species in Cucurbitaceae have spiral shoots and alternating lounged leaves. Shooting is wrapped around the objects and is used to support growing plants and there are reasons why these plants are often considered wine crops. Plants usually have both male and female flowers. Male flowers contain pollen and female flowers contain seeds. Pollination occurs only by external transmission, for example from bees, because pollen has no air ability.
generally fleshy, fruit usually has a hard outer shell. Some seeds can be edible or used for medicinal purposes. In addition, the seeds of many types are winged, which means that the storms or connected to the material that allows them to vzTo be driven over the distance. The seeds of the helicopter and dandelions are common examples of winged seeds. In the Cucurbitaceae family, winged seeds of one genus, alsomitra , in fact helped inspire wings' designs in early aircraft. Although Cucurbiteae is a larger subfamily, zanonioideae contains all types of winged seeds. Cucurbitoideae, however, contains plants used for crops.
crops in this family have been economically valuable for thousands of years. Seeds were found from several species, which are estimated to be 8,000 years. These plants are considered to be some of the earliest sets for cultivation in both America and Europe.
The vegetation period varies between species. For example, in areas where there is no warm rocctory, as well as the Midwest United States, melons melons, citrullus lanatus , are grown for the first few months in greenhouses before they will be transplAntiled to a field where they continue to grow for the next three months as long as they are finally prepared for harvesting. On the contrary, cucumbers, cucurbita sativus , especially those used for pickling, have a growing season for only six weeks and often harvested more than once a week on large cucumber farms.
In addition to melons and cucumbers, squash, melons like melon and pumpkins, there are plant crops that are present in this family. However, not all species are used as vegetables. Some species such as a bottle of gourd, lagenaria metuliferus and African horned cucumber, cucumis metuliferus are used for ornamental purposes. Bottle gourds are also used for containers and as resonators for musical instruments. In addition, there are several species that are considered weeds such as cocciniagrandis or Ivy Gourd.