The Coco de mer nuts were found as far away as the Maldives Some seeds travel by air or water while others catch a ride on the fur or the inside of an animal. This is not the case with the Coco de mer whose mechanism for seed dispersal only allows it to grow near […]
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Why Do You Think Coco De Mer Seeds Need To Be So Big?
Seeds that fell thus stayed put, growing close to – and competing with – their parents, siblings and cousins. “This exerted pressure on seed size: the larger the seed, the higher the chance of establishment and survival,” says Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury, a scientist at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. Why is the coco de […]