The various physical methods which include wind, insects, animals, tension, and water, by which a plant scatters its seeds away from the parent plant.
    

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Six seeding plants, including dandelion, oak, sycamore and hazel, all illustrating different methods of seed dispersal. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

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Six seeding plants, including dandelion, oak, sycamore and hazel, all illustrating different methods of seed dispersal. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.