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Ecballium elaterium
About
Ecballium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae containing a single species, Ecballium elaterium, also called the squirting cucumber. Its unusual common name derives from the ripe fruit squirting a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds as a means of seed dispersal, an example of rapid plant movement.
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
Full detailsevery field on the record, to copy
- Name
- Ecballium elaterium
- Slug
- ecballium-elaterium
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Genus
- Ecballium
- Species
- elaterium
- Wikidata QID
- Q157877
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
Generated sections & citations
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- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecballium
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- wikipedia (description.summary) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecballium