Lebanese Cucumber

Flexuosus type. A very unusual melon! Long thin fruit is meant to be eaten like a cucumber in the immature stage. Often sold as a cucumber, but actually a melon. Fruit has a slightly bitter skin, but fruit is juicy, sweet, crisp, and refreshing. Fruit is smooth with slight ribbing and pale green with darker green stripes. Fruit 11-20" long, 1.5-3.5" wide, and weighs 0.5-4 lbs. Thin rind less than 0.25". Pale green flesh is thin 0.8-1" thick. Early to mid-season maturing, moderate productivity, and susceptible to anthracnose when grown in 2014 at Heritage Farm. SSE Accession # 113331