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 ...

Instead, when the time comes to give life to the next generation of wee cucumber seedlings, it yeets them around 10 meters (32.8 feet) from the parent plant in a high-speed pressurized jet.

A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the ...

Although growing cucumbers in the vegetable garden is easy, there is a chance that the leaves of your cucumber plants turn ...

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists know how the plants do it. A squirting cucumber in action is a remarkable sight, but if you ...

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The squirting cucumber Ecballium—not to be confused with the exploding cucumber Cyclanthera—is not a showy plant. It meanders ...

Squirting cucumbers shoot their seeds up to 33 feet (10 m) away from the mother plant to avoid overcrowding and competition, ...

The only way to have a bug fixed or a new feature accepted is to describe it with a Cucumber feature. Let's say you think you have found a bug in the cucumber:install ...