The fruit is cylindrical, light green, smooth surfaced, often curved, 30-100cm long, with dense flesh and greenish-white.Primarily processed and pickled using tender cucumbers, they can also be stir-fried, but are not suitable for raw consumption.Ming Wang Shao's "Miscellaneous Notes on Gardening" (1587) records: "Cucumbers that are unsuitable for raw consumption but suitable for pickling are called vegetable cucumbers."Melons are unsuitable for raw consumption but suitable for pickling, known as vegetable melon..Such as the snake-shaped sweet melon of South China, the hairy cucumber of Xinjiang, and the Hangzhou green cucumber.The botanical characteristics, biological traits, and cultivation techniques are similar to those of thin-skinned sweet melons.Vegetable cucumbers are fruits from the gourd family plant Cucurbita ovifera, a one-year-old climbing or creeping herbaceous plant.Stems have ridges with numerous bristly hairs, leaves alternate, leaf shape is oval or kidney-shaped, slightly longer than wider.Flesh is firm and long-cylindrical, outer skin smooth with longitudinal lines, greenish-white or pale green.The flesh is white or light green, juicy.
