Accession Data:
Ecballium elaterium (L.) A.Rich.
- Common Name: Squirting Cucumber
- Family: Cucurbitaceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Mediterranean and Macaronesia
- Habitat: Hot dry places on waste ground and roadsides
- 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
- Source: Strictly Medicinal Seeds, LLC - 2019
- Accession Date: 11-30--0001
- Bench: 2102 - MED:Mediterranean B
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 4 confirmed on 01-08-2025
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosids I
- Order: Cucurbitales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Cucurbitaceae
- SubFamily:
- Tribe: Bryonieae
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Baleares / Corse / France / Portugal / Sardegna / Spain / Albania / Bulgaria / Greece / Italy / Kriti / Romania / Sicilia / Turkey-in-Europe / Yugoslavia / Krym / East European Russia / Ukraine / Algeria / Libya / Morocco / Tunisia / North Caucasus / Transcaucasus / Cyprus / East Aegean Is. / Iran / Lebanon-Syria / Palestine / Turkey
References (external):
- 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.
data regenerated on Sat, 19 Apr 2025 12:21:03 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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W/C = Wild Collected
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