Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still showing the jet ejected from a squirting cucumber, which carries its seeds distances of up to 32 feet away from the mother ...

Take a look at squirting cucumber explosive seed dispersal in real time and slowed down. Credit: Helen Gorges/CC BY-NC-ND One doesn’t normally associate ballistics with botany, but most of us don’t ...

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 ...

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