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 ...

Do you have the image of plants as "things that don't move" or "things that just wait for the wind or animals"?However, the ...

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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An odd little gourd called the squirting cucumber has an explosive reproductive strategy that has intrigued naturalists since the ...

Share this page on Twitter Share this page on Facebook Share this page on Email Share this page on Print Three summers ago, Kiel University biomechanist Stainslav Gorb, returned to Germany after a ...

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 ...

(CNN) — An odd little gourd called the squirting cucumber has an explosive reproductive strategy that has intrigued naturalists since the days of the Roman Empire. Squirting cucumbers blast their ...