Cucumber seeds have been found to be rich in nutrients and peptides that enhance calcium absorption, thus improving bone ...

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists say they have found ...

Blink and you might miss how quickly this squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) ejects its seeds. The mechanics behind ...

Squirting cucumber uses high-pressure seed ejection for dispersal, with seeds reaching speeds of 20m/s and landing up to 10m ...

To reveal the mechanism, the team employed the help of a high-speed camera that could capture up to 8,600 frames per second, ...

"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 ...

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The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant. But ...

The mystery surrounding the exact way the squirting cucumber disperses its seeds and how it impacts its ability to reproduce ...

The squirting cucumber shoots its seeds so fast that scientists had to use techniques like high-speed videography to record ...