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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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