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The difference between white jade cucumber and common cucumber
1, plant: white jade cucumber for infinite growth habit, medium density of prickly hairs, tendrils, top anterior section of heavy curling. Ordinary cucumber is an annual trailing or climbing herb; stem, branch elongation, angular grooves. 2, leaf blade: white jade cucumber green, main vine central leaf blade nearly round, leaf margin undulate, the main vine maximum leaf blade length of 23cm, width of 23cm. ordinary cucumber leaf blade broadly ovate-cordate, membranous, length and width of 7 to 20cm, both sides are very rough, being hispid.

1, plant: white jade cucumber for infinite growth habit, the first branch node is located in the third section, the main trailing light green, medium density of prickly hairs, tendrils, the top of the anterior section of the heavy curling. Common cucumber is an annual trailing or climbing herb; the stem and branches are elongated, furrowed, and white hispid. The tendrils are fine, not divergent, white pilose.

2, leaf blade: white jade cucumber green, the main vine central leaf nearly round, leaf margin undulate, the main vine maximum leaf length 23cm, width 23cm. ordinary cucumber leaf blade broad ovate-cordate, membranous, length, width are 7-20cm, both sides are very rough, hispid, 3-5 angular or lobed, 2-3cm wide, 2-2.5cm deep, sometimes the base of the backward closure.

3, flowers: the third leaf node of the white jade cucumber bearing the first female flowers, female flowers sepals thin and narrow, petals broad pointed. Common cucumber monoecious, male flowers are often clustered in the leaf axils; pedicel slender, 0.5-1.5 cm long, puberulent; female flowers solitary or sparsely clustered, pedicel stout, pilose, 1-2 cm long; ovary fusiform, scabrous, with small thorns protruding.

4, fruit: white jade cucumber melon for the long stick-shaped, melon handle length 4-5cm, melon length 30-35cm, transverse diameter of 4-5cm, melon skin white and green, no mottled, melon flesh white and green, meat thickness of 1.0-1.2cm, the melon surface is more bright, no wax powder, shallow prongs, melon tumors sparse, a single plant sitting fruit 11-13. Ordinary cucumber fruit oblong or cylindrical, 10-30 (~ 50) cm long, yellow-green when ripe, surface rough, with a prickly tip of the tumor-like protrusions, very rare near-smooth.