Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists say they have found ...
Squirting cucumbers shoot their seeds up to 33 feet (10 m) away from the mother plant to avoid overcrowding and competition, ...
They filmed the seed dispersal using a high-speed camera, which captured up to 8,600 frames per second. They then measured ...
The squirting cucumber shoots its seeds so fast that scientists had to use techniques like high-speed videography to record ...
The mystery surrounding the exact way the squirting cucumber disperses its seeds and how it impacts its ability to reproduce ...
The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant. But ...
Squirting cucumber uses high-pressure seed ejection for dispersal, with seeds reaching speeds of 20m/s and landing up to 10m ...
"Ballistic seed dispersal" is not something you see often in plants – and for good reason, perhaps, when you see just what the affectionately called squirting cucumber is capable of. Shunning external ...
Scientists unveiled the squirting cucumber’s seed dispersal mechanism, involving fluid redistribution and rapid recoil.
The squirting cucumber Ecballium—not to be confused with the exploding cucumber Cyclanthera—is not a showy plant. It meanders ...