Squirting Cucumber: Squirting Cucumber is the strangest fruit in the world. When a person touches it, it bursts and liquid and Seeds emerge. Sometimes it even does this on its own, hence the name Exploding Cucumber. (Also called Exploding Cucumber). Now a video related to this is going viral, in which On seeing, you will feel that just as a machine gun releases bullets, this fruit releases its seeds in the same way. This fruit is poisonous, never forget to eat it.
This video has been shared on social media by a user named @gunsnrosesgirl3, in the caption of which it has been said, ‘This is a squirting cucumber, which is called so because of its ability to throw a special kind of liquid between itself up to 6 meters away. Is.’ This video is of 39 seconds, in which you can see how this fruit throws its seeds in the air. Let us tell you that the plant on which this fruit grows is also known by the name Squirting Cucumber.
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This is a squirting cucumber
so called because of its ability to launch its seeds in a stream of mucilaginous liquid, up to 6 meters away.
Such dispersal avoids plants competing in close proximity for resources.
Video credits: @SmithsonianChan pic.twitter.com/6rGMrel1Bf
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) December 1, 2021
Actually, in this way this plant throws its seeds far and wide, due to which new plants are able to grow. This process of ‘seed dispersion’ is very unique. When bursting, this fruit can throw its seeds 3 to 6 meters (about 10 to 20 feet) away.
This Smithsonian Channel clip shows three plant species that use different methods of propulsion to spread their seeds. Violets, touch me nots, and poisonous squirting cucumbers explode in some pretty incredible ways (full video: https://t.co/hfa1pEY9BF, pic.twitter.com/Rs8UQJf4r7
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 15, 2021
Interesting Facts About Squirting Cucumber
According to the report of britannica.com, the scientific name of Squirting Cucumber is Ecballium Elaterium, which is a herbaceous plant of the Gourd Family, on which this strange fruit grows.
Don’t forget to eat squirting cucumber
The name Squirting Cucumber may be a bit misleading as it contains the word ‘cucumber’, which means cucumber in Hindi, but it is not the same as the normal cucumbers you get at vegetable stores that you eat. Squirting cucumber is poisonous, so eating any part of this plant can be fatal.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: December 24, 2023, 16:55
