The document discusses various methods of seed dispersal used by plants, including transportation by wind (dandelion, sycamore, ragwort), floating in water (pond iris, coconut), hitching rides on animals whose fur or digestive tracts carry seeds elsewhere (burrs, berries), exploding pods (peas), and forcibly ejecting seeds from shaken or broken pods (red campion, gorse). The goal of these dispersal mechanisms is to help seeds travel far from the parent plant to find new areas to germinate and grow.

1. SEED DISPERSAL - Traveling to survive

2. SOME ARE

3. DREAMING OF WIND COTTON

4. MAPLE

5. SPIRALLING ITS WAY DOWN…

6. DANDELION

7. ON FEATHERY WINGS…..

8. A PARACHUTE RAGWORT Feathery hairs help the seed to float on the wind.

9. WINGED SPINNERS SYCAMORE Wing-like outgrowths make it spin as it falls from the parent plant. This spinning delays its fall so that the wind may carry it some distance away.

10. AND SOME ARE

11. FLOATING AWAY COCONUT

12. ON A LONG VOYAGE……… .........TO ANOTHER SHORE

13. POND IRIS The seed pods break open when they ripen. Those which fall into the water float away.

14. LOTUS SEED

16. WAITING FOR A FREE RIDE - SPEAR GRASS

17. XANTHIUM THE SPINY BEAUTY

18. DEVIL’S CLAW

19. BURDOCK

20. BURR

21. OFFERING THEMSELVES TO ANIMALS BERRIES They are eaten by birds, mice, deer and even foxes. The seeds are expelled in the droppings of the animal .

23. EXPLOSIVE DISPERSAL PEAS They produce seed pods which dry in the sun and explode

24. RUPTURED SEED PODS

25. THE 'PEPPER-POT ' RED CAMPION The containers are shaken by the wind, scattering the seeds through the openings

26. GORSE FIRING LIKE A GUN

27. BALSAM

28. STAGES OF GERMINATION

31. THANKS