EditorialSquirting cucumber or exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium (Momordica elaterium). Handcoloured zincograph by Chabots drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett d...
EditorialSquirting cucumber or exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium (Momordica elaterium). Handcoloured zincograph by Chabots drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett d...
EditorialSquirting cucumber, Ecballium elaterium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Ber...