Ecballium elaterium
| Squirting Cucumber | ||||||||||||||
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 A fruit of the squirting cucumber | ||||||||||||||
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| Ecballium elaterium (L.) A.Rich. |
Ecballium elaterium, also called the squirting cucumber or exploding cucumber, is a plant in the cucumber family. It gets its unusual name from the fact that, when ripe, it squirts a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds, which can be seen with the naked eye. It is thus considered to have rapid plant movement.
This plant, and especially its fruit, is poisonous.
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