When article reading was very tasty :)
P.S. The #melon cultivar 'Piel de Sapo' (literally 'Toad Skin'), sometimes known as the Santa Claus melon or the Christmas melon, is a type of true melon (fam. #Cucurbitaceae, Cucumis melo, Indorous group) originating from Spain.
When article reading was very tasty :)
P.S. The #melon cultivar 'Piel de Sapo' (literally 'Toad Skin'), sometimes known as the Santa Claus melon or the Christmas melon, is a type of true melon (fam. #Cucurbitaceae, Cucumis melo, Inodorus group) originating from Spain.
Couleurs d’automne à Saint-Junien 🍂 🎃
Merci aux agents des espaces verts pour les belles décorations installées dans la commune !
#SaintJunien #automne #Toussaint #fleurs #chrysanthèmes #cucurbitacées #cucurbitaceae #décoration #espacepublic #Halloween #Halloween2025
A close-up of a dollar vine and the leaves are green and circularly shaped, about the size of a silver dollar.
A dollar vine, native to Madagascar
#Plants #Cucurbitaceae #ColorADay #GreenSat #Succulent #Photography
An ink and marker drawing of a squash bee (Xenoglossa strenua) for the prompt, "niche." The bee is facing right and has a pronounced nasal region of its face; I don't know specific anatomical names for bee facial structures (I would guess it is the labrum...) It basically looks like a hairy bee with a big nose. There are squash/gourd flowers, tendrils, and gourd shapes incorporated throughout the art: flowers are mostly on the hind legs+ thorax, and the plant tendrils are mostly background features. Color scheme is primarily greens, yellows, orange, and tan.
Got lost in the squash with this one...
Squash bees are specialists on cucurbits, and I think that's pretty cool and niche of them.
Sept. 8 Prompt: niche
#squashbee #xenoglossastrenua #cucurbitaceae #traditionalart #sciartseptember
Establishment of efficient Trichosanthes mottle mosaic virus-derived gene silencing in cucurbit plants
Cheng Chen, Zhu Fang, Min Du, Changkai Yang, Yukui Yang, Xueping Zhou & Xiuling Yang
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#MottleMosaicVirus #Cucurbits #Cucurbitaceae
Flor de cor amarela com cinco pétalas e seu interior um amarelo mais escuro. Ela está em um fundo de folhas verdes escuro.
Fruto verde e espinhudo que lembra um melão e está em um fundo de folhas verdes escuro.
🥰Flor de Melão-de-são-caetano e fruto (Momordica charantia)
Lembra a Goya japonesa. 😋
#Cucurbitaceae
Já comeu ou viu em sua infância?@linopimentel.bsky.social
Close-up photo of a yellow squash flower with three bees jammed into the center. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
How many carpenter bees can fit into a squash flower? Three. I count three bee butts.
Happy World Bee Day! We need bees (and not just honeybees)!
#bees #WorldBeeDay #beeday #Cucurbitaceae
Oblong, green fruit covered with hundreds of spines of various lengths.
Fruit of wild cucumber (Marah macrocarpa) from a hike in Eaton Canyon, Pasadena, a few years ago. Underground tubers can weigh as much as a small boulder and allow rapid regrowth after fire. Its seeds can also survive in rodent tunnels and scrub jay caches. #EatonCanyon #cucurbitaceae #botany #fire
Escarabat de la Creïlla (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)
Fulla afectada per Tuta absoluta
Fulles afectades per Oïdi
Fulles afectades per Mildiu
De les 🍅🫑🍉🎃 #Cucurbitaceae i #Solanaceae la més delicà és la tomaquera. Hi ha que vigilar
2 plagues: #Tutaabsoluta i #Leptinotarsadecemlineata també Escarabat de la creïlla (més bé de les fulles de les solanàcies)
2 malalties: #Oïdi i #Mildiu que es provoquen secors negres o pilositats blanques:
Photo of a single, white, star-shaped flower with a salverform corolla. The outer edges of the corolla lobes are elaborated into long, curling fringes.
This flower looks like wrongly imagined, badly executed AI, but it’s real. It’s Trichosanthes pilosa var. pilosa (Cookie M CCBYNCND2). It’s night-blooming & pollinated by hawk moths. #Cucurbitaceae #pollination #Botany #TeamMoth #Sphingidae 🌾🧪🌱
Archive photo of a book with two pages illustrated with a melon and a pumpkin.
Humans have a long history of use of pumpkins, gourds & melons. This Edo period illustration, courtesy of the National Diet Library, is from "Honzo Zufu" Illustrated Book of Herbal Medicine, Vol 8, Vol 53, Vegetables jpsearch.go.jp/item/... #Cucurbitaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of the base of a vine. The woody stem is expanded to form a large, collar-like flange around the stem. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
This #Cucurbitaceae from southeastern Africa is Gerrardanthus macrorhizus. It forms a caudex (swollen stem base), which as the plant matures becomes a flattened flange just above the ground. It’s very odd. It’s like no other caudex plant I know. #Cucurbitaceae #PlantMorphology #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Plate of a photo and a diagram. The photo shows a hand holding a large, flattened seed with a membranous wing that extends to both sides of the seed like bat wings. The entire seed+wing is about 10 cm long. The diagram shows fugoid flight: The seed falls, gains lift, stalls, then falls again – reiterating until the seed lands. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
The seeds of Alsomitra macrocarpa are winged & are released from gourd-like fruit borne on a high-climbing vine. The seed has fugoid (or phugoid) flight. It spirals in graceful arcs as it flies and glides to the ground. #Cucurbitaceae #dispersal #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a cucumber sliced in trans-section showing the three seed-bearing placentas attached around the inner wall of the fruit. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Placentation in the #Cucurbitaceae is parietal. The placentas are attached to the wall of the ovary & the ovules (future seeds) point inward, toward the center of the fruit. This cucumber has 3 fused carpels & 3 placentas. #placentation #PlantMorphology #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a single white flower. The corolla is funnel-shaped. The anthers are fused and contorted into a ball of thecae in the center of the flower. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Photo of a single white flower. The corolla is funnel-shaped. A trifid stigma is visible in the center of the flower. The inferior ovary is visible as a swelling just below the corolla. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Flowers of Cucurbitaceae are unisexual. This is Coccinia grandis. The 1st 📷 shows the staminate flower with the anthers fused & contorted. 2nd 📷 shows a female flower. The 3-lobed stigma & inferior ovary are just visible. #Cucurbitaceae #PlantMorphology #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
A close-up photo of four seeds from a butternut squash. Each flattened seed has a furrow just inside the perimeter of the seed. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
Seeds of Cucurbitaceae, winged or not, have a distinctive feature called the pleurogram (= horseshoe-shaped furrow that opens toward the hilum). Its function is unknown. It may not be the same as the pleurogram found in some legumes (#Fabaceae). #Cucurbitaceae #PlantMorphology #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
It is not entirely clear to me what that apical pads are in the photo? Those little points on the edge? I hesitate as they do not seem translucent?
(I grow a lot of #cucurbitaceae in my allotment garden, so curious).
Photo of the margin of a leaf. The Cucurbitoid tooth is visible as described in the post. Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.
The #Cucurbitaceae have the Cucurbitoid tooth: central vein and higher order veins ending in a translucent apical pad of densely packed cells. Cucurbita sp., abaxial view. #PlantMorphology #PlantAnatomy #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a butternut squash cut longitudinally. The two halves are cut-side up to show the rind and the seeds.
A pepo is another variation of a berry. It's a non-septate (undivided or non-segmented) hard berry with a leathery skin. It applies ± only to #Cucurbitaceae. Why do some families get names for their #fruit types? (looking at you, #Poaceae & #Asteraceae) 📷: Andy Roberts CCBY2 #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
HaBEE #pollinatorweek 🐝 here is a Pruinose #Squash #Bee that I took a few years back in Pennsylvania collecting pollen from a pumpkin flower #cucurbitaceae 🥕
Photo of a cucumber with one end sliced off and a single, thin cross-section. In the cross-sectional view, one can see three placentae attached to the inside wall of the fruit. The immature seeds are still attached to the placentae. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 4.0.
You are familiar with parietal placentation (even if you don’t know it by that name). If you’ve ever sliced a #cucumber, you’ll have seen how the seeds/ovules are attached along three longitudinal placentae on the ovary wall. Cucumis sativus #Cucurbitaceae #placentation #Botany #PlantScience 🌾🧪
A well-resolved #Cucurbitaceae #phylogeny
(#Kurkkukasvit sis. mm. #vesimeloni)
Guo et al. 2020 www.cell.com/molecular-pl...
Today in Cucumber Chronicles, occupational hazards of tendrils and a spineless-fruit sport! #cucurbitaceae #CucumisSativus
