Ecballium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae containing a single species, Ecballium elaterium,[1][2] also called the squirting cucumber or exploding cucumber (not the same plant as Cyclanthera brachystachya). 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.[3]
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Ecballium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae containing a single species, Ecballium elaterium, also called the squirting cucumber...
also from Ecballium elaterium Citrullus colocynthis, Cucurbita andreana, deters feeding by flea beetle: 55 Hexanorcucurbitacin I from Ecballium elaterium: 56 ...
parviflora, Oxalia acetosella and Ecballium elaterium, turgor pressure is the method by which seeds are dispersed. In Ecballium elaterium, or squirting cucumber...
elaterium. However, some scholars believe that he was instead referring to Ecballium elaterium, known in pre-Linnean times as Cucumis silvestris or Cucumis...
However, some scholars[who?] believe that he was instead referring to Ecballium elaterium, known in pre-Linnean times as Cucumis silvestris or Cucumis...
Cyclanthera brachystachya, the exploding cucumber (but not to be confused with Ecballium elaterium), in the cucurbit or gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), is a herbaceous...
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speckles). (In its early vegetative stages it may also be confused with Ecballium elaterium which has coarse hairs and very prominent net veins under the...
other insects, but are phytophagus, mainly feeding on Squirting Cucumber (Ecballium elaterium), White Bryony (Bryonia dioica) and other Cucurbitaceae. They...
years old and represented a sister clade to the older genera Bryonia and Ecballium, found in Eurasia and the Mediterranean regions, both estimated to be...
2740050904. Lavie, David; Willner, David (1958). "The Constituents of Ecballium elaterium L. III. Elatericin a and B1,2". Journal of the American Chemical...
dangerously irritant/cathartic plants in the plant family Cucurbitaceae such as Ecballium elaterium and Citrullus colocynthis. One chemical constituent of Desfontainia...
on red bryony (Bryonia dioica) and probably also squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium). More unusually, they have been recorded eating rotting wood...
A. (2005). "Immunomodulatory activity of cucurbitacin E isolated from Ecballium elaterium". Fitoterapia. 76 (5): 439–441. doi:10.1016/j.fitote.2005.02...
were conducted using herbs or other drugs. According to Pliny the Elder, Ecballium elaterium was the most effective abortifacient. The plant was also recorded...
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