Humans have known about the squirting cucumber plant for over 2,000 years. Ancient Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder warned ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

"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 from the University of Manchester have uncovered the secrets behind one of nature's quirkiest plants - the ...

The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant. But take a closer look at the plant, which grows in dry, barren areas in the ...