A set of 12 seeds sown in Melbourne took an average of about six months to germinate ( with the first germinating in 3 months ) and only developed roots after 1 year.

The Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne were initially intended to be a horticultural exhibition for the public to enjoy, many seeds were traded between early European botanists such as Arthur and Von Mueller, who planted non-native species.

* The East Meon Garden Club is an active society which organises two very popular East Meon Gardens Open Days, in April and June, seven evening meetings, two visits to interesting gardens and the opportunity to buy seeds and plants, fertilisers and bulbs at discounted prices.

There is often an indehiscent beak at the top of the style and one or more seeds may be borne there.

The siliqua may break apart at constrictions occurring between the segments of the seeds, thus forming a sort of loment ( e. g., Raphanus ), it may eject the seeds explosively ( e. g., Cardamine ) or may be evolved in a sort of samara ( e. g., Isatis ).

Thermophilic ( high-temperature ) composting is well known to destroy many seeds and nearly all types of pathogens ( exceptions may include prions ).

The stalks are not usually eaten ( except in soups or stews in French cuisine ), but the leaves may be used in salads, and its seeds are those sold as a spice.

When the overstory regrows, seeds of annuals and smaller plants may lie dormant until the next fire creates the conditions required for germination.

Such behavior may serve to improve absorption of vitamins or of nutritive elements made available from the re-ingestion of seeds.

Others have suggested the decline of the tree was exaggerated, or that other extinct animals may also have been distributing the seeds, such as tortoises, fruit bats or the Broad-billed Parrot.

Animals tend to be more mobile than plants, although pollen and seeds may be carried great distances by animals or wind.

Fish and seafood, seeds and nuts, seed and nut butters, seasonings, sweeteners, fruits, and beverages may be enjoyed occasionally, 2 – 3 times per week.

The Nobel prize winner Francis Crick, along with Leslie Orgel proposed seeds of life may have been purposely spread by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, but considering an early " RNA world " Crick noted later that life originating may have originated on Earth.

Popular examples include The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, as well as the Girl Genius series by Phil and Kaja Foglio, although seeds of the genre may be seen in certain works of Michael Moorcock, Philip Jose Farmer and Steve Stiles, and in such games as Space 1889 and Marcus Rowland's Forgotten Futures.

Springbok may accomplish this by selecting flowers, seeds, and leaves of shrubs before dawn, when these foods are most succulent.

Salt, fat and leavening agents such as yeast and baking soda are common ingredients, though bread may contain other ingredients, such as milk, egg, sugar, spice, fruit ( such as raisins ), vegetables ( such as onion ), nuts ( such as walnuts ) or seeds ( such as poppy ).

In addition, seeds containing amygdalin — apple, apricot, bitter almond, peach, plum, cherry, quince, and others — when consumed in sufficient amounts, may cause cyanide poisoning.

Flax seeds may lower cholesterol levels, especially in women.

Initial studies suggest that flax seeds taken in the diet may benefit individuals with certain types of breast and prostate cancers.

These seeds will give rise to a new generation of plants that may be identical in appearance to those that preceded the flowering, or they may also produce new cultivars with different characteristics, such as the presence or absence of striping or other changes in coloration of the culms.

Budget limitations can be addressed by a simpler garden style with fewer plants and less costly hardscape materials, seeds rather than sod for lawns, and plants that grow quickly ; alternatively, garden owners may choose to create their garden over time, area by area.

Blanched peanuts, as prepared for making peanut butter or for eating as nuts, are roasted seeds whose seedcoats have been rubbed off.

Oils, or liquid fats, from the seeds of flax and tung have long been the principal constituents of paints and varnishes for protecting and beautifying the surfaces of wood and metal.

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.

The color and shape of seeds have long made them attractive for ornaments and decorations.

Since Biblical times, rosaries have been made from jobs-tears -- the seeds of an Asiatic grass.

Frogs have been caught on fish hooks baited with red flannel and green frogs ( Rana clamitans ) have been found to have stomachs full of elm seeds that they had seen floating past.

* Those species which have relatively large dry seeds have a dark, crust-like ( crustose ) outer layer containing the pigment phytomelan.

In contrast, the morphologically similar seeds of Liliales have no phytomelan, and usually retain a cellular structure in the inner portion of the seed coat.

The seeds have conspicuous hairs.

The seeds have an oily endosperm and generally contain large quantities of fatty oils, with the fatty acid petroselinic acid occurring universally throughout the family while rarely being found outside of the Apiaceae.

They reproduce slowly either by bulb division or seeds and have gradually naturalized from plantings in urban and suburban areas throughout the lower elevations and coastal areas in much of the West Coast of the USA since these environments mimic their native South African habitat.

On the other hand, there have been notable protests against certain globalization policies by Third World workers as in the cause of Indian farmers protesting against patenting seeds.

Fresh seeds with the pericarp removed typically have a 40 % germination rate, while dried seeds and / or seeds with an intact pericarp have yet lower germination rates.

Gymnosperms are seed-producing plants which have open seeds, such as conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, and gnetophyta.

Chipmunks have an omnivorous diet primarily consisting of seeds, nuts and other fruits, and buds.

The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to develop the flavor.

However, one group of researchers have found that carob seeds in fact have typical variability compared to the seeds of other species.

Celery seeds contain a compound, 3-n-butylphthalide, that has been demonstrated to lower blood pressure in rats.

In 2004, Botanical Society of America's Plant Science Bulletin disputed Dr. Temple's research as flawed which published evidence as to why the dodo's extinction did not directly cause the increasing disappearance of young trees including suggestion that tortoises would have been more likely to disperse the seeds than dodo hence discrediting Temple's view as to the dodo and the tree's sole survival relationship.

" But Maloy adds that " The totalitarian thesis in Rousseau studies has, by now, been discredited as an attribution of real historical influence .” Arthur Melzer, however, while conceding that Rousseau would not have approved of modern nationalism, observes that his theories do contain the " seeds of nationalism ", insofar as they set forth the " politics of identification ", which are rooted in sympathetic emotion.

Cultivation spread from China in the early 20th century, when seeds were introduced to New Zealand by Mary Isabel Fraser, the principal of Wanganui Girls ' College, who had been visiting mission schools in Yichang, China.

The scientists discovered that the man's last meal had been a kind of porridge made from vegetables and seeds, both cultivated and wild: barley, linseed, gold of pleasure ( Camelina sativa ), knotweed, bristlegrass, and chamomile.

Although the order was defined based on phylogenetic studies, a number of possible synapomorphies have been suggested, relating to the pollen tube, the seeds, the thickness of the integument, and other aspects of the morphology.

Cotton has been genetically modified for resistance to glyphosate ( marketed as Roundup in North America ) a broad-spectrum herbicide sold by Monsanto which also sells some of the Bt cotton seeds to farmers.

Selection for these traits by farmers might not have been deliberately intended, but simply have occurred because these traits made gathering the seeds easier ; nevertheless such ' incidental ' selection was an important part of crop domestication.

The site of T-DNA insertions has been determined for over 300, 000 independent transgenic lines, with the information and seeds accessible through online T-DNA databases.

Seeds have been an important development in the reproduction and spread of flowering plants, relative to more primitive plants such as mosses, ferns and liverworts, which do not have seeds and use other means to propagate themselves.

Many seeds have been used as beads in necklaces and rosaries including Job's tears, Chinaberry, rosary pea, and castor bean.

Flax seeds produce a vegetable oil known as flaxseed or linseed oil, which is one of the oldest commercial oils, and solvent-processed flax seed oil has been used for centuries as a drying oil in painting and varnishing.

Meanwhile, evidence of lentil cultivation has also been found in Egyptian pyramids and dry pea seeds have been discovered in a Swiss village that are believed to date back to the Stone Age.

Pomace brandy ( also called marc in both English and French ) is produced by fermentation and distillation of the grape skins, seeds, and stems that remain after grapes have been pressed to extract their juice ( which is then used to make wine ).

In planting, wider rows ( generally 75 cm ( 30 in ) or more ) are used, and the intent is to have precise, even spacing between individual seeds in the row ; various mechanisms have been devised to count out individual seeds at exact intervals.