A pergola with a table underneath set for dinner - Johner Images/Getty Images Wild cucumber kind of looks like the perfect garden multitasker, doesn't it? This unusual plant -- also known as ...

Drive around virtually anywhere in Minnesota right now and there's a good chance a light green vine with white flowers and prickly looking fruit will catch your eye. "It's the wild cucumber," said ...

Answer: Wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata) is an aggressive, native vine that can almost smother small trees. The leaf shape is similar to a maple leaf with widely spaced teeth all around the edges.

There is timing for all plants — including weeds — to be conspicuous at certain seasons in a natural landscape. In autumn, one such attractive weed that has become more prominent in recent years is ...

Pamela B. Weatherbee writes in her “Flora of Berkshire County, Massachusetts” that the wild cucumber “Can be aggressive, swarming over other vegetation.” And how very correct she is. For a number of ...

Q: I have been seeing some really aggressive light green vines growing beside the roads in rural areas. The very long and bushy vines are running all over trees and bushes. They have fluffy white ...

As fall progresses the landscape changes, and even though we've been through this cycle many times (some of us more than others), the changes still seem remarkable. On Cattail Trail at the nature ...

Two weedy vines are receiving a lot of attention this year. Both can be found in our shrubs, trees and fences. If left un-managed, they can smother out shrubs and trees by preventing the tree leaves ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. In Echinocystis macrocarpa the large differentiating vessels of the secondary xylem furnish excellent material for the study of giant ...