Ecballium elaterium

Squirting Cucumber
	A fruit of the squirting cucumber; A fruit of the squirting cucumber
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae;
Division:	Magnoliophyta;
Class:	Magnoliopsida;
Order:	Cucurbitales;
Family:	Cucurbitaceae;
Genus:	Ecballium;
Species:	E. elaterium;
Binomial name
	Ecballium elaterium; (L.) A.Rich.

Ecballium elaterium, also called the squirting cucumber, is a plant in the cucumber family. It gets its unusual name from the fact that, when ripe, it squirts a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds, which can be seen with the naked eye. It is thus concidered to have rapid plant movement

This plant, and especially its fruit, is poisonous.