The squirting cucumber shoots its seeds so fast that scientists had to use techniques like high-speed videography to record it.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by the University of Oxford has shed light on the appropriately named squirting cucumber’s aggressive and poorly understood seed dispersal method. A study published on November 25 in the journal PNAS suggests the findings could inspire bio-engineering innovations, like mechanisms for the precise release of medication. It also explains how it’s even possible for a cucumber to launch its seeds a distance 250 times the length of its body.