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. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
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...