Ecballium elaterium
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.
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderCucurbitales
- FamilyCucurbitaceae
Native toAlbania, Algeria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Iran, Italy
喷瓜（学名：Ecballium elaterium），为葫芦科喷瓜属下的一个植物种，人称‘生物地雷’。這種植物，特別是它的果實，是有毒的。
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- Description
- Distribution
- Seed dispersal
- History in folk medicine
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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. 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.
==Description== Ecballium elaterium is a herbaceous perennial plant with a tuberous root, usually traling on the ground but sometimes shrubby, with bristly stems. The leaves are lobed, greyish-green, and rough-surfaced and bristly-hairy. The flowers have a five-lobed yellow corolla, diameter, maturing into an oval green or blue-green fruit about long, resembling a tiny but hairy cucumber.