Squirting cucumber uses high-pressure seed ejection for dispersal, with seeds reaching speeds of 20m/s and landing up to 10m ...

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

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

The quirky plant, a relative of the edible cucumber, ejects its seeds at a whopping 44mph - even faster than the human ...

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

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

They filmed the seed dispersal using a high-speed camera, which captured up to 8,600 frames per second. They then measured ...

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

"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 ...

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

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