10 Cucumber Varieties You've Never Heard Of

A lot of people at least once in their life have hears the expression "fit like a cucumber." When one speaks of a cucumber, the imagination usually draws a picture of a beautiful green and crispy vegetable right from the garden, and not at all the examples that we offer in the review. Mostly probable, not only have you not tried such cucumbers, you might have not heard about them.

• 10. Kiwano, African cucumber

  When ripe, it has bright yellow peel and juicy green flesh. It tastes like a cross between cucumber, pomegranate and zucchini.

• 9. Hedgehog cucumber, Chayote

  These decorative cucumbers are easy to grow, and it's also nice to watch how funny "hedgehogs" grow among the lush greenery.

• 8. Dragon’s egg cucumber

  Judging by the name, you can expect anything from such a vegetable. However, it is a creamy white cucumber with pale green flesh that tastes slightly sweeter than regular cucumbers.

• 7. "Red Hmong" cucumber

  Red Hmong cucumber fruits can be white to pale green, turning golden orange-red as they ripen. The Hmong tribe lives on the borders of Thailand, China, Burma, Laos and Vietnam.

• 6. "Crystal lemon" cucumber

  Its fruits are sweet, soft and very juicy, but it just looks like a bitter lemon. It is said to be extremely useful.

• 5. Cucumber "Kaiser Alexander"

  An unusually rare variety of cucumber, named after the Russian Tsar Alexander, who was very fond of eating overripe cucumbers.

• 4. Gaс cucumber (Gak)

  It is also called the spring bitter cucumber, it is considered one of the healthiest vegetables in the world. It helps cure fever, abscess and back pain.

• 3. Kigelia

  Kigelia cucumbers grow on a tree that the locals call the sausage tree. Sometimes the length of the vegetable can reach three meters.

• 2. Serpentine melon cucumber

  It is also called the Armenian cucumber. This is a melon culture that produces fruits weighing up to 1 kg. They have a very thin peel and tiny seeds.

• 1. Magnolia long-pointed fruits

  This is the rarest type of cucumber, which, from a scientific point of view, is not a cucumber at all. It grows on long-pointed magnolia, the length of the fruit is 6-8 cm.