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This really is a cucumber! I was telling the squash vendor at the Farmers' Market this morning about how something made me call the two-toned squash last week a cucumber. So he pulled this round thing out of a box (where it was waiting for somebody to pick it up -- all these round cucumbers were already sold) and showed it to me, saying that it was indeed a cucumber. I didn't have my real camera but took this picture with my phone.
Cucumber-like formation of nickelous hydroxide mushroomed from the spots where drops of concentrated sodium hydroxides mingled with an aqueous solution of nickelous sulfate.
From a chemist's vantage point:
NiSO4(aq) + 2 NaOH(aq) → Ni(OH)2(s)↓ + Na2SO4(aq)
A cucumber plant came up in our window box - we figure the seed was in the worm dirt we used to fill the planter. It's using the window screen as a convenient trellis.
Not often but once in a while I will see one of these Cucumber Beetles on the roses.. Maybe the rose taste like a veggie.. You think?