Vegetable squash: cucumber, pumpkin, zucchini, bamboo shoots melon, winter melon, gourd, melon, squash, bitter melon, Buddha's hand melon.

1, cucumber

China is widely cultivated throughout the country, and many areas have greenhouse or plastic greenhouse cultivation; now widely planted in temperate and tropical regions, cucumber is one of the main vegetables for the summer throughout China.

2, pumpkin

Originally from Mexico to Central America, commonly cultivated around the world. Introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, it is now widely planted throughout the north and south. Pumpkin fruit for food, but also on behalf of food. Fruiting pedicel stout, ribbed and grooved, 5-7 centimeters long, the melon tip expanded into a trumpet; gourd fruit shape varies, depending on the variety, often with several longitudinal grooves or no outside.

3, winter melon

Winter melon is mainly distributed in other tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, all regions of China are cultivated. China's southern Yunnan (Xishuangbanna) has wild, fruit far smaller. Eastern Australia and Madagascar are also distributed. Winter melon fruit in addition to vegetables, but also can be impregnated for a variety of sweets.

4, loofah

Fruit cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, smooth surface, usually with dark longitudinal stripes, fleshy when not ripe, dry when ripe, inside the net-like fiber. Commonly cultivated throughout southern and northern China. It is also widely cultivated in temperate and tropical regions of the world. It is found wild in southern Yunnan, but the fruit is shorter and smaller. Fruit for the summer vegetables, ripe inside the net-like fibers called loofah, can be used instead of sponges as a scrubber stove and furniture.

5, bitter melon

Fruit fusiform or cylindrical, multi-tuberculate wrinkles, orange-yellow when ripe. Seeds oblong, two sides have engraved. Flowers, fruiting period of May-October. Bitter melon is native to East India and is widely cultivated in tropical to temperate regions of the world. It is widely cultivated in the tropical to temperate regions of the world. It is commonly cultivated in both north and south China. Bitter melon fruit taste sweet and bitter, mainly for vegetables, can also be candied; mature pulp and aril can also be eaten.