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The explosive secret behind the squirting cucumber is finally outHumans 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 ...
The squirting cucumber shoots its seeds so fast that scientists had to use techniques like high-speed videography to record ...
They filmed the seed dispersal using a high-speed camera, which captured up to 8,600 frames per second. They then measured ...
"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 ...
A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the ...
The mystery surrounding the exact way the squirting cucumber disperses its seeds and how it impacts its ability to reproduce ...
Squirting cucumber uses high-pressure seed ejection for dispersal, with seeds reaching speeds of 20m/s and landing up to 10m ...
Scientists unveiled the squirting cucumber’s seed dispersal mechanism, involving fluid redistribution and rapid recoil.
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