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Wild cucumber

Botanical name: Marah

Wild cucumber
Botanical name: Marah
Wild cucumber (Marah)

Description

Wild cucumber are native to western North America. The manroots are perennial plants, growing from a large tuberous root. Most have stout, scabrous or hairy stems, with coiling tendrils that enable them to climb up other plants. Their leaves tend to have multiple lobes. The fruits are large, and spherical, oval or cylindrical. And in many species they are covered in long spines. It includes six or seven species.

Species of Wild cucumber

Wild cucumber

Wild cucumber

Wild cucumber (Marah macrocarpa) is an odd-looking plant that features a 'hairy looking ball' or 'hairy cucumber.' A soap-like extract can be processed from the large tuber of the manroot. Wild cucumber is able to self pollinate with a little help from insects moving between the male and female flowers.
Coast man-root

Coast man-root

Coast man-root are native to western North America. The manroots are perennial plants, growing from a large tuberous root. Most have stout, scabrous or hairy stems, with coiling tendrils that enable them to climb up other plants. Their leaves tend to have multiple lobes. The fruits are large, and spherical, oval or cylindrical. And in many species they are covered in long spines. It includes six or seven species.
California manroot

California manroot

California manroot are native to western North America. The manroots are perennial plants, growing from a large tuberous root. Most have stout, scabrous or hairy stems, with coiling tendrils that enable them to climb up other plants. Their leaves tend to have multiple lobes. The fruits are large, and spherical, oval or cylindrical. And in many species they are covered in long spines. It includes six or seven species.
Sierra man-root

Sierra man-root

Sierra man-root are native to western North America. The manroots are perennial plants, growing from a large tuberous root. Most have stout, scabrous or hairy stems, with coiling tendrils that enable them to climb up other plants. Their leaves tend to have multiple lobes. The fruits are large, and spherical, oval or cylindrical. And in many species they are covered in long spines. It includes six or seven species.
Taw man-root

Taw man-root

Taw man-root are native to western North America. The manroots are perennial plants, growing from a large tuberous root. Most have stout, scabrous or hairy stems, with coiling tendrils that enable them to climb up other plants. Their leaves tend to have multiple lobes. The fruits are large, and spherical, oval or cylindrical. And in many species they are covered in long spines. It includes six or seven species.
Wild cucumber (Marah) Wild cucumber (Marah)

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