Most cucumber plants will have two different types of flowers — male and female. The basic difference between these two types is that the female flowers have tiny cucumber fruits at the base ...

The flowers are easy to tell apart - the female flower has a swelling beneath it that will become a cucumber. Alternatively, choose all female flower varieties. Cucumbers must be kept moist ...

So botanists make the firm claim that cucumbers are fruits because they develop through the fertilization of flowers and contain seeds. Though there are almost a hundred varieties of cucumber ...