Tsukemono are pickled vegetables and are a beloved staple in Japanese cuisine. Check out Japanese pickles recipes from a ...

A cucumber recall was issued in a salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 68 people — including 18 who required hospitalization — across multiple states, federal officials said.

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Squirting cucumbers shoot their seeds up to 33 feet (10 m) away from the mother plant to avoid overcrowding and competition, but exactly how they do it has long remained a mystery. Squirting ...

Apparently, sometimes you really do need to eat a whole cucumber. At least that's if you believe TikTok. As I wrote in August, this recipe idea from TikTok creator @logagm (Logan) is "actually an ...

The squirting cucumber can blast its seeds dozens of feet from the parent plant. The stem and fruit of the plant have been colored green in this image. | Adapted from F. Box, D.E. Moulton ...

There is a fruit called the ‘squirting cucumber’ that fires its seeds like mini ballistic missiles. But how does it do this? Researchers seem to have solved this mystery — a question that has baffled ...

The only way to have a bug fixed or a new feature accepted is to describe it with a Cucumber feature. Let's say you think you have found a bug in the cucumber:install ...

"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 ...

One of the great mysteries of the botanical world involves a familiar component found in many of our salads: cucumbers. Except the specific cucumber species in question has a unique way of ...

By Carolyn Wilke 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 ...