| It forms colourless scales which have a bitter taste, but it is highly inadvisable to taste either this substance or elaterium. |
| Its medicinal action is similar to that of elaterium, differing only in its greater activity. |
| Elaterin is extracted from elaterium by chloroform and then precipitated by ether. |
| If you think that your space may be threatened by a feminine presence, you should consider growing the squirting cucumber, Ecballium elaterium. |
| If you seek a talking point for your garden, how about Ecballium elaterium, the squirting cucumber that fires its seeds 30 feet? |
| Colocynth and elaterium have also been proved to act specifically. |
