Accession Data
Ecballium elaterium
Common Name: Squirting Cucumber
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Country of Origin: Mediterranean and Macaronesia
Description: A trailing to slightly bushy perennial that has messy, exploding seed pods, it is more a gardeners practical joke than a major garden ornament. The trailing habit lends itself to ground cover or climbing up a low fence. Leaves are palmately lobed and bristly, and both male and female flowers appear on one plant. The flowers are funnel-shaped, about 1 inch across and are deep yellow. The hairy seed pods are blue-green Culture as for its close relatives, cucumbers and pumpkins.
Accession Data
Accession #: 201900289
Accession Date: -0001-11-30 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2102
Quantity: 4
Source: Strictly Medicinal Seeds, LLC - 2019
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: eurosids I
Order: Cucurbitales
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Tribe: Bryonieae
Flowering Data:
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References
- Plants For A Future Website Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Sunday, September 03, 2017.
- www.plantillustrations.org, accessed 2 December 2013
- Ecballium elaterium. (2013, October 12). Wikispecies, . Retrieved 14:47, December 2, 2013
- Ecballium elaterium at Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Last accessed on Sunday, September 03, 2017.
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