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<i>Ecballium elaterium</i>. "A vessel which is usually long, with fusiform extremities, and has the walls thickened in a spiral manner with one or more simple simple or branched bands or fibers. In most cases the direction of the spiral is from right to left, but it frequently happens that the earlier formed spirals run in one direction, while those formed later run in an opposite direction." &mdash;Whitney, 1889

Spiral Vessels or Ducts of the Squirting Cucumber

Ecballium elaterium. "A vessel which is usually long, with fusiform extremities, and has the walls thickened…

The Squirting or Exploding Cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) is a cucumber plant named for squirting a stream of liquid containing its seeds.

Squirting Cucumber

The Squirting or Exploding Cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) is a cucumber plant named for squirting a…