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The seeds are dispersed by birds which eat the fleshy scale and pass the seed on in their droppings ; they are an important food resource for some species, particularly the kakapo, whose breeding cycle has been linked to cone production cycle of the tree.
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Ants carry away the seeds so better be sure that there are no ant hills nearby.
Sprouted grains and seeds are used in salads and dishes such as chop suey.
Blanched peanuts, as prepared for making peanut butter or for eating as nuts, are roasted seeds whose seedcoats have been rubbed off.
More than half of the sorghum and barley seeds we produce and most of the byproducts of the milling of cereals and the crushing of oilseeds are fed to livestock.
More than 200 million tons of seeds and seed products are fed to livestock annually in the United States.
The efficiency with which animals convert grains and forages to meat has risen steadily in the United States since the 1930's and has paralleled the increased feeding of the cake and meal that are a byproduct when seeds are processed for oil.
Chief among the seed crops grown primarily for industrial uses are the oil-bearing seeds -- flax, castor, tung ( nuts from the China wood-oil tree ), perilla ( from an Oriental mint ), and oiticica ( from a Brazilian tree ).
Solid fats from the seeds of the mahua tree, the shea tree, and the coconut palm are used to make candles in tropical countries.
Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.
Bead tree seeds are the necklaces of South Pacific islanders and the eyes of Buddha dolls in Cuba.
Still another group of seeds ( sometimes tiny, dry, seed-bearing fruits ) provide distinctive flavors and odors to foods, although the nutrients they supply are quite negligible.
Beverages are made from seeds the world over.
Many desert annuals are therophytes, because their seed-to-seed life cycle is only weeks and they spend most of the year as seeds to survive dry conditions.
The flowers are usually arranged in inflorescences, and the mature seeds lack endosperm.
An Oligocene ( 34 – 23 Mya ) pollen is known for Asteraceae and Goodeniaceae, and seeds from Oligocene and Miocene ( 23 – 5. 3 Mya ) are known for Menyanthaceae and Campanulaceae respectively.
The plentiful seeds of the umbers, likewise, are sometimes used in cuisine, as with, coriander ( Coriandrum sativum ), fennel ( Foeniculum vulgare ), cumin ( Cuminum cyminum ), and caraway ( Carum carvi ).
These trees differ from the birches ( Betula, the other genus in the family ) in that the female catkins are woody and do not disintegrate at maturity, opening to release the seeds in a similar manner to many conifer cones.
# Its seeds are a good source of protein.
Although the Turun Sanomat Building and Paimio Sanatorium are comparatively pure modernist works, they too carried the seeds of his questioning of such an orthodox modernist approach and a move to a more daring, synthetic attitude.
Research grade agar is used extensively in plant biology as it is supplemented with a nutrient and vitamin mixture that allows for seedling germination in Petri dishes under sterile conditions ( given that the seeds are sterilized as well ).
It opens by two valves, which are the modified carpels, leaving the seeds attached to a framework made up of the placenta and tissue from the junction between the valves ( replum ).
Gymnosperms are seed-producing plants which have open seeds, such as conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophyta.
Angiosperms are seed-producing plants that produce flowers, having enclosed seeds.
Bean () is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of the family Fabaceae ( alternately Leguminosae ) some of which are used for human food or animal feed.
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The seeds of Magnolioideae are bird dispersed while the seeds of Liriodendron are wind dispersed.
The seeds are large and heavy, 10 mm long and 8 mm broad, with a short rounded wing 12 mm long ; they may be bird or mammal dispersed as the wing is too small to be effective for wind dispersal.
It has winged seeds that are dispersed primarily by wind and gravity.
In western Montana clearcuts, seeds were dispersed up to 250 m ( 800 feet ) uphill from their source, but seedfall between 180 – 250 m ( 600 – 800 feet ) was only 7 % of that found in uncut stands.
Typha is often among the first wetland plants to colonize areas of newly exposed wet mud, with its abundant wind dispersed seeds.
The seeds are eaten and dispersed by birds, for which they are a valuable resource because of the scarcity of food in some important time of year, as the time of breeding, migration or the dry season.
When mature, the fruits are eaten and their seeds dispersed by several mammals, such as the red fox and the Eurasian badger, as well as by small birds.
The tiny seeds were difficult to obtain, as they dispersed as soon as the pods cracked, and would not germinate without scarifying.
The cones disintegrate at maturity to release the 3 – 4 cm long nut-like seeds, which are then dispersed by jays and squirrels.
The seeds of some species have elaiosomes and are dispersed by ants.
The seed cones are globose, 5 to 7 cm diameter, and mature 18 to 20 months after pollination ; the seed cones disintegrate at maturity to release winged seeds, which are then dispersed by the wind.
Seeds are dispersed by wind and also cling to clothing and animal fur, and as contaminates of commercially exchanged seeds ; the relocation of this plant throughout the planet has been difficult if not impossible to contain.
Fig seeds are dispersed by birds such as the Indian Mynas and studies have shown that seeds that pass through the digestive system of the bird are more likely to germinate as well as sprout earlier.
The seeds are dispersed by grazing herbivores such as cattle and horses, which eat the pod pulp and excrete the seeds in droppings ; the animal's digestive system assists in breaking down the hard seed coat, making germination easier.
The seeds are dispersed by the Kererū ( New Zealand Pigeon ), which eats the ' berries ' and passes the seeds in its droppings.
Seed dispersal is mostly by wind, but some species have large seeds with reduced wings, and are dispersed by birds.
The seeds are dispersed by these animals, which allows the jackfruit to compete for space with native tree species.
However, their Christian practice is often mixed with vestiges of their traditional religion, a notable instance being la Costumbre, a survival of an old rite of sacrifice in which various seeds are mixed with earth and the blood of fowls and dispersed over the planting fields.
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