Seeds parachuting

Seeds parachuting

Seeds can be transported by wind, for some have parachutes carrying them slowy through the air, "e.g." helicopter seeds spin to the ground being totally scattered. The name for this process is one of the life cycle of a plant called seed dispersal.


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