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The Squirting Cucumber ( "Ecballium elaterium") is a good example.
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Balsaminaceae) whose fruits explosively dehisce and squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium, Cucurbitaceae) that discharge their seeds in a mucilaginous stream of liquid.
Seed dispersal Wikipedia 2009
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