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Giant 'Cucumber' From Brazil May Be One Of The Largest You've Ever Seen, Or Maybe Not (PHOTO)

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How many salads can you make with an 88-pound cucumber? Some (un)lucky Brazilians may soon find out.

The giant vegetable -- which is reportedly 1.15 meters (3 feet 9 inches) thick, 70 cm (2 feet 4 inches) long and weighs about 40 kilograms -- was recently spotted at a market in the Vila Palmeira neighborhood of the northeast city of São Luís.

Antônio Carlos Jr., who was given the cucumber by his father-in-law, decided to display the vegetable in the front of his store at the market. He said some people don't believe it's actually a cucumber and think it's a watermelon, according to the city's O Imparcial newspaper.

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Stephen Reiners, an associate professor of horticulture at Cornell University, told The Huffington Post there's a pretty good chance it's not actually a cucumber: "My guess is that it was not a cucumber but may have been in with some seeds that they thought were cucumbers and instead it was an entirely different species of watermelon or squash."

No one has tasted the "cucumber" yet, but Carlos plans to cut it up and distribute it among the townspeople to make salads, photographer Karlos Geromy (who captured the above photo) explained to HuffPost in an email. But even if it is a cucumber, one that large "would be of terrible quality," Rainers said, adding that it would taste "more like eating cotton as it would be extremely fibrous."

Geromy said the seeds that grew this cucumber came from the city of Itarantim and previously grew another cucumber that weighed about 6 kilograms (13 pounds). He added that an agricultural engineer thinks the cucumber's size may be due to a genetic mutation.

For reference, a typical U.S. cucumber is only about 8 inches long and weighs half a pound, according to Michael Mazourek, a professor of plant breeding, also at Cornell.

"Environment is a huge factor in plant size," Mazourek told HuffPost.

Other giant cucumbers have appeared on the Internet in the past, but this Brazilian veggie may be the world's heaviest if it does indeed check out.

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Emma Stone's Gwen Stacy Outfit On Set Of 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' Might Be Giant Spoiler (PHOTOS)

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WARNING: Possible major spoilers about "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" discussed ahead.

New photos have emerged from the New York set of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," and with the pics comes a new round of speculation regarding the fate of Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) in the 2014 sequel.

In the original "Amazing Spider-Man" comic books, Stacy is Spider-Man's girlfriend and she perishes during a fight between the friendly neighborhood web-slinger and his nemesis, Green Goblin. (The issues, "Amazing Spider-Man" #121 and #122, are commonly referred to as "The Night Gwen Stacy Died.")

"I am a huge fan of the Gwen Stacy saga in the comics," director Marc Webb told HuffPost Entertainment after "The Amazing Spider-Man" was released last summer. "I think it's one of the more interesting and controversial storylines -- certainly in 'Spider-Man' and really in all comics. I think one of the reasons that it was interesting to tell [the] Gwen Stacy [story] is because of that element. But, of course, you need to establish that connection. And we'll see how that unfolds."

Indeed. As many have noted, the new "Amazing Spider-Man 2" set photos show Stone wearing the same outfit that Stacy did in the "Amazing Spider-Man" comics right before her death. Whether or not that's a nod to the original arc or an outright spoiler is unclear; "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" isn't set for release until May 1, 2014.

For her part, Stone seemed very excited about exploring the possibility of her character's downfall. "I think [her death is] a hugely important part of her story and of this incarnation of Spider-Man," Stone told IGN. "I think that was very important to everybody. I think there's a certain expectation and then there's a certain awareness of mortality that Gwen has already [...] just because her father was in the face of death everyday and so is Peter, so I think death always surrounds her. I think it's a really important element to her character. I mean, she, as fans know, is kind of most famous for how she departs. So that's a weird thing to play, knowing about such an iconic part of her existence."

Check out photos of Stone and "Spider-Man" star Andrew Garfield in action on the set of "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" below.

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