Cucumber fruit developing on plants possessing multiple lateral branching, which is atypical of commercial cucumbers. This type of branching is important because increasing branch number increases yield potential.
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23 February 2007 (according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format" class="extiw" title="en:Exchangeable image file format">Exif</a> data)
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