The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a kind from the family of the

In everyday linguistic usage is called the edible, green and firm potato berry cucumber. It is well-known also as salad cucumber or queue cucumber.

Etymologie

The designation is not an originally German word. It is one of the few Polonismen in German and goes thus on the Polish word for cucumber (read: ogurek) back.

History

Over the origin of the cucumber there are two theories: After the one originates it from north India, where it is to grow for approximately 4000 years at the south slopes of the Himalajas. To the other one she comes from the tropical Africa, of where she arrived over Egypt into the Mediterranean area. In south India the cucumber was already used in the Neolithikum. Wild cucumber plants were domestic in the grass steppes of the Dekkan. With the Greeks and Romans it was already well-known as fruit, the Roman Feinschmecker Apicius delivers numerous prescriptions. The workers in the quarry of Mons Claudianus in Egypt verzehrten under anderm one also cucumbers. To Northern Europe the cucumbers came only in the Roman time. Charred cucumber seeds are among other things proven from Roman-temporal layers made of London. Since the late Middle Ages archaeological proofs, particularly more frequent in latrines, become. The first greenhouse cucumbers became in 19." Century in England pulled.

Description

The plant is down-lying or climbing. The Spreite of the is five angular to The male blooms are often bushes ELT, the crown become two to three centimeters long. The female blooms possess three Staminodien. The fruit about 30 to 40 centimeters long, is slim, and at the ends tapered. Like all potato berries it releases to its seeds only if the Fruchtfleisch purges. It consists too up to 97 per cent of water. With 9,7 kcal 100 g each it is considered as calorie-poor.

Use

Cucumbers are roughly edible. They are mostly cut in disks and put on with salad sauce and/or Vinaigrette. Likes is she also as a component of Sandwiches. They can be conserved by as salt cucumbers (genuine sour cucumbers), with Essigsud in-cooked as spice cucumbers or as gherkins pickled with mustard seeds.

Agriculture

Because of their tropical origin they place high requirements for temperature in the cultivation, why they are cultivated meanwhile nearly world-wide in greenhouses or Folientunnel.

• Cultivated area (Germany Nov/2004) 3,340 hectars

Contents materials

Source: Souci.Fachmann.Kraut 1994

Literature

• Kster, latemedieval Pflanzenreste from a well of Deggendorf (Lower Bavaria). In: Karl Schmotz (Hrsg.), lectures of the Niederbayeri archaeologist daily (Rahden, Leidorf 2004) 175-199.

Related links

• http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue1/tomlinson/table3.html (archaeological proofs, on English)

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