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Super-speedy cucumber
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
|September 2025
Squirting cucumbers fire out seeds as fast as a moving car.
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New research has found that seeds from the cucumber (Ecballium elaterium) can reach speeds of about 29 miles per hour and can land around 12 metres away.
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