<ul><li>The squirting cucumber Ecballium elaterium shoots its seeds violently in a stream of mucilage when they're ripe.</li><li>The seeds can be shot up to almost 40 feet.</li><li>Researchers have studied how the squirting cucumber goes ballistic and found that the fruit detaches from the stalk, opening a hole in the base and seeds emerge at speeds of up to 66 feet per second.</li><li>The whole process of seed ejection takes about 30 milliseconds.</li></ul>

Squirting Cucumbers Shoot Their Seeds Like Botanical Bombardiers

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