Squirting Cucumber!

I have never seen these before. However Pete and I saw masses of them as we walked back to the villa having dropped the car off to have its back door (wont open) seen to (hopefully)


Ecballium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae containing a single species, Ecballium elaterium,[1][2] also called the squirting cucumber or exploding cucumber (not the same plant as Cyclanthera brachystachya). Its unusual common name derives from the ripe fruit squirting a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds as a means of seed dispersal, an example of rapid plant movement.[3]