Foot by foot the wild cucumbers quickly sent their long vines across lawn andflowerbed and terrace.

Some wild cucumbers are also grown, however vegetables are less frequently grown due to low rainfall.

The labels say wild cucumber.

"Everywhere you go there is some plant called wild cucumber."

The entrance was low, through a log porch festooned and almost concealed by a "wild cucumber."

Armenian cucumber, a melon which when pickled is sold as "pickled wild cucumber" in Middle Eastern markets.

At the very mouth, where groundwater surfaces on the streambed, there are the stands of trees, and undergrowth includes wild cucumber and gooseberry.

Pliny the Elder describes the Italian fruit as very small, probably like a gherkin, describing it as a wild cucumber considerably smaller than the cultivated one.

This is the variety sold in Middle Eastern markets as "pickled wild cucumber".

In North America, the term "wild cucumber" also refers to plants in the genus Marah.