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Small Wild Cucumber
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Small Wild Cucumber

Cucumis africanus

Cucumis africanus, the wild cucumber or wild gherkin, is a species of cucumber belonging to the genus Cucumis. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger. The species is native to Southern Africa.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 516178.