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DIŒCY, the separation of the sexes on to different diploid individuals, occurs irregularly throughout the higher plants. It must therefore have arisen a number of times during the evolution of this ...

Scientists say they’ve worked out how the plant can fire its seeds up to almost 40 feet. By Carolyn Wilke The hairy, ground-hugging vines of the squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium might seem like ...

A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the squirting cucumber squirt? The findings, achieved through a combination of ...

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, D. Vella, Y ...

New research into the biomechanics of explosive seed dispersal in squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium) reveals how these plants have adapted a suite of unique traits that help propel their ...

Squirting cucumbers are named after the way they expel their seeds in a violent jet of liquid — and now, scientists have finally unlocked the mysterious mechanics of these explosive launches. New ...

It may look like a pickled vegetable, but when fully ripe it can launch its seeds across a remarkable 10-metre radius The squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) is a phenomenal ballistic missile, ...