The Squirting Cucumber Can Launch Its Seeds 40 Feet and 30 MPH
One of nature’s most inherently hypersexual plants, Ecballium elaterium, better known as the squirting cucumber, weaponizes its reproductive system. It turns itself into a T-shirt canon of seeds, NPR reports. However, NPR didn’t quite phrase it that way. Three summers ago, Kiel University biomechanist Stanislav Gorb came back from Turkey with a strange gift for […] The post The Squirting Cucumber Can Launch Its Seeds 40 Feet and 30 MPH appeared first on VICE.