The squirting cucumber doesn't get its name for nothing. And it's why her supervisor, who studies biomechanics, was so excited about them. Gorges searched for the plant on YouTube, and turned up this ...

A small, hairy, toxic version of the cucumbers found in the produce aisle does have an advantage over its more palatable ...

Many factors must interact perfectly to disperse the seeds efficiently without destroying the plant too early.

Squirting cucumbers blast their seeds over distances hundreds of times their length, and now scientists have solved the mystery of how the plants do it.

When it is ripe, the squirting cucumber will detach from the stem and shoot out its seeds in a high-pressure jet of mucus. In only 30 milliseconds , it can send its seeds about 65-feet-per second.

Butch Taulton, 72, picked the magic cucumber planter at the Home Depot in Charles Town, West Virginia, this summer. Six of the nine pre-planted cucumber seeds sprouted and all surpassed 30 inches ...

The seeds of a squirting cucumber can reach distances of about 33 feet away from the mother plant. Dominic Vella. Recently, researchers blew this ballistic mystery wide open.