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Reading a plant book and found a wild fact about orchid seeds
I was flipping through 'The Hidden Life of Trees' last night and it said a single orchid seed pod can hold over a million seeds, which is just nuts to picture. It made me wonder how something so tiny even gets started without much food stored inside. Has anyone else come across a plant fact that made you stop and think?
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john_fisher6d ago
My old botany textbook said seeds needed big energy reserves.
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corap216d ago
My basil sprouted fine with tiny seeds, maybe newer plants evolved differently?
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Wait, so if orchid seeds are that tiny, how do they not just blow away and die? That's wild. John_fisher's old textbook logic makes sense for like, an acorn, but it's funny to think my own energy reserves are about as useful as an orchid seed's on a Monday morning.
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