THE CUCUMBER TREE

ENDANGERED PROTECTION

• The cucumber tree is protected under two acts
• The Ontario endangered species act in 2007
• The federal species at risk act
• ATV prohibited zones in areas with the tree
• Selective tree cuting in the hopes of not cutting unfound cucumber trees

HABITAT

• The tree grows in the Niagara region and also in the Norfolk county
• These are the only places it grows in Ontario
• They like wet and moist areas to grow, especially near water
• It grows in other places besides Ontario

DESCRIPTION

• The tree has red meat like pods once ripe to hold in the cucumber like fruit
• The branches curve upwards after a downwards slope
• It can grow up to approximatly 30m tall
• The fruit from the trees are not real cucumbers even though it gets its name from them

POPULATION

• In 2008-09 the last population was survey taken
• There were approximately 180 trees in each group in Ontario
• There were 18 groupings of those cucumber trees in Ontario
• This was the second of two official surveys done in Ontario

THREATS

• Dry or quite wet time periods easy kill it
• Un-careful logging may kill undiscovered or already discovered cucumber areas
• Recreational ATV use in areas they shouldn't be used in or in areas with the tree
• Small amounts of trees create less cross-pollination reduces seed amounts

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