Squirting cucumber, photo (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

Squirting cucumber, photo

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A still showing the jet ejected from a squirting cucumber, which carries its seeds distances of up to 10m away from the mother plant. Credit: Dominic Vella

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Dominic Vella

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