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Near the Tria Adelphia outside is a bus stop shelter the field behind the shelter is covered with Squirting Cucumber Its Latin name Ecballium elaterium is from the Greek ‘ekballein,’ meaning to throw out and refers to the ejection of the seeds from the fruit when it ripens.
THIS WAS TAKEN SEP 2017
THIS WAS TAKEN AUG 2019
This shows how fast these plants can grow in the right conditions
Squirting cucumber is a fragile vine with small greenish-yellow flowers that haunts marshes, sandy roadsides and low woods. Blossoms are bisexual and symmetrical. Often found along railroad tracks, this herbaceous plant of the gourd family has thick, haired stems on a plant that spreads to about 24 inches across.
Upon reaching maturity, the fruits explosively eject their brown seeds as they detach from the stem; the seeds may travel 3 to 6 metres (about 10 to 20 feet) from the plant. squirting cucumberThe unusual seed dispersal of the squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).
Squirting cucumber contains poisonous cucurbitacins, and all parts of the plant can be fatal if ingested. ... squirting cucumberThe unusual seed dispersal of the squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).