Whether you want to save money on seeds next year or you just want to expand your garden knowledge, here's how to save your ...
The squirting cucumber shoots its seeds so fast that scientists had to use techniques like high-speed videography to record ...
"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 ...
Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists say they have found ...
To reveal the mechanism, the team employed the help of a high-speed camera that could capture up to 8,600 frames per second, ...
Although growing cucumbers in the vegetable garden is easy, there is a chance that the leaves of your cucumber plants turn ...
Squirting cucumber uses high-pressure seed ejection for dispersal, with seeds reaching speeds of 20m/s and landing up to 10m ...
The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant. But ...
Scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered the secrets behind one of nature’s quirkiest plants - the ...
Scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered the secrets behind one of nature's quirkiest plants - the ...
Scientists unveiled the squirting cucumber’s seed dispersal mechanism, involving fluid redistribution and rapid recoil.