C. hirsuta seed pods consist of two, long valves. When the seeds are ready for dispersal, these valves rapidly separate and coil back, firing seeds out across a large area. The secret to these pods ...

Hairy bittercress makes its seed pods explode – University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research researchers discover plant mechanism resembling a muscle Hairy bittercress ...

Take a look at squirting cucumber explosive seed dispersal in real time and slowed down. Credit: Helen Gorges/CC BY-NC-ND One doesn’t normally associate ballistics with botany, but most of us don’t ...