Some plants provide their fruits (seedpods) with a mechanism that ejects the seeds from the pod by force.
There are several methods plants use to fling their seeds out of the seedpod. All of them rely on the effect of evaporation of water in the seedpod, so this method of seed dispersal usually takes place in the sun.
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsIojj4PzAo
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http://www.countrysideinfo.co.uk/seed_dispersl/index-2.htm
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ReplyDeleteThere are certainly similarities with how some animals spread their seeds when you look at photo 3
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