Growing your own cucumbers is a great way to enjoy fresh, crisp veggies straight from the garden. But getting the best ...
Squirting cucumbers shoot their seeds up to 33 feet (10 m) away from the mother plant to avoid overcrowding and competition, ...
The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like an ordinary weedy plant. But ...
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 ...
To reveal the mechanism, the team employed the help of a high-speed camera that could capture up to 8,600 frames per second, ...
Scientists unveiled the squirting cucumber’s seed dispersal mechanism, involving fluid redistribution and rapid recoil.
A team has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the squirting cucumber squirt? The findings were achieved through a combination of experiments, high-speed videography ...
"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 ...