Names
No scientific synonyms are recorded for this name.
English: cowcumber, Cucumber, Garden Cucumber.
In other languages
- Arabic: خيار
- Belarusian: Агурок пасяўны
- Bengali: শশা
- Catalan: Cogombre
- Chinese: 青瓜, 黃瓜, 黄瓜
- Czech: okurka setá
- Danish: Agurk, Almindelig agurk, asieagurk
- Dutch: Augurk, Komkommer
- Estonian: Kurk
- Finnish: kurkku, vihanneskurkku
- French: Concombre, concombre cultivé, Concombre cultivé, Concombre, Cornichon, Concombre cultivé, Cornichon, Cornichon cultivé, Concombre cultivé, Concombre, Cornichon, Courgette
- German: Gurke
- Greek: Αγγουριά
- Hebrew: מְלָפְפוֹן, מלפפון תרבותי
- Hungarian: Uborka
- Indonesian: Mentimun
- Italian: Cetriolo
- Japanese: キュウリ
- Korean: 오이
- Lithuanian: Paprastasis agurkas
- Luxembourgish: Kornischong
- Norwegian (Bokmål): agurk
- Norwegian (Nynorsk): agurk
- Ojibwe: Eckadamin
- Polish: Ogórek siewny
- Portuguese: pepino
- Russian: Огурец, Огурец обыкновенный
- Slovak: uhorka siata
- Spanish: Pepino cohombro
- Swedish: gurka
- Telugu: దోసకాయలు
- Thai: แตงกวา
- Turkish: hıyar
- Ukrainian: Огірок звичайний
- Welsh: Chwerfwr, Chwerwddwr, Cucumer, Cucumerau
- arg: Pepinera
- bis: Kukamba
- epo: Kukumo
- kaz: Қияр
- khm: ត្រសក់
- mar: मावळी काकडी
- nor: agurk
- sin: පිපිඤ්ඤා
- tgl: Pipino
- yid: אוגערקע
Names with no language recorded: Akuɔl, bonte, Cetrulo, Cocómaro, Cohombro, cucumber, cucumbers, Garden cucumber (EN), Gugummer, Gurk, Gurke (DE), Ka'ukama, kakompv, Kiuri, Konkonb, Pepera keli.
Where it is recorded
- USDA PLANTS: CUSA4
- GBIF: 2874569
- GRIN: 404426
- Wikidata: Q23425
- Wikidata: L1371458-S1
Taxonomy record sources: GBIF (CC BY 4.0), USDA_PLANTS_CATALOG (Public Domain). Loaded from the botanica open cultivated-plant knowledge base and the GBIF backbone; each row keeps its origin.
Growth stages
- Initial: about 20 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted June/Aug, Arid Region)
- Crop development: about 30 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted June/Aug, Arid Region)
- Mid-season: about 40 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted June/Aug, Arid Region)
- Late season: about 15 days (FAO 56 Table 11: planted June/Aug, Arid Region)
What the sources say it wants
Each line shows the band, then the kind of source and the citation. "Published" means the number is printed on the cited page; "derived" means it was computed from published numbers with the formula recorded on the row; "external API" rows are refreshed nightly from a live source; "curated" rows are OAT's own working values from June 2026.
Whole cycle
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light | Daily light integral at the canopy (mol/m2/d) | 15 to 30 (warning below 15) | published: DLI 'Requirements' (Runkle, GPN 'Technically Speaking', May 2019, p.50) (Michigan State University Floricultur |
| Feed | Calcium (ppm) | 170 | published: A Recipe for Hydroponic Success (Mattson & Peters) (Cornell University Dept. of Horticulture (hosted fact shee |
| Feed | Potassium (ppm) | 341 | published: A Recipe for Hydroponic Success (Mattson & Peters) (Cornell University Dept. of Horticulture (hosted fact shee |
| Feed | Magnesium (ppm) | 48 | published: A Recipe for Hydroponic Success (Mattson & Peters) (Cornell University Dept. of Horticulture (hosted fact shee |
| Feed | Nitrogen (ppm) | 125 to 175 (target 175) | published: A Recipe for Hydroponic Success (Mattson & Peters) (Cornell University Dept. of Horticulture (hosted fact shee |
| Feed | Phosphorus (ppm) | 39 | published: A Recipe for Hydroponic Success (Mattson & Peters) (Cornell University Dept. of Horticulture (hosted fact shee |
| Root zone | Root-zone EC (dS/m) | up to 2.5 (warning above 3.3, alert above 4.4) | published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 29, 1985 |
Initial
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timing | Crop coefficient, initial stage (ratio) | 0.6 | published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998 |
Mid-season
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timing | Crop coefficient, mid-season (ratio) | 1 | published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998 |
Late season
| Zone | Measure | Band | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timing | Crop coefficient, end of season (ratio) | 0.75 | published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998 |
Cultivar groups with their own numbers
The species row above carries the species-level bands. These groups differ enough in the sources that they keep their own rows.
Cucumber (Machine harvest)
- Crop coefficient, end of season (ratio): 0.9 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
- Crop coefficient, initial stage (ratio): 0.5 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
- Crop coefficient, mid-season (ratio): 1 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
Keystone status
Partial. The KEEP rule asks for a growth stage and a band in each of light, air and root zone before a crop counts as complete; this plant is in the keystone with what its sources give so far.
Generated 2026-09-15 from the OAT plant keystone. Source types and citations are carried on every row; the keystone snapshot that the Library instruments read is plant-targets.json and its quality sheet is plant-targets.quality.json.