Cucumbers can be one of the most rewarding vegetables you grow in your garden. They grow quickly and just a few plants can ...

Cucumbers are one of the easiest plants you can grow in your summer garden, but just how many cucumbers you can expect to harvest from a single plant depends on a number of different factors.

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

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 ...

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

Scientists unveiled the squirting cucumber’s seed dispersal mechanism, involving fluid redistribution and rapid recoil.

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

"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 ...