seed dispersal

[Jack Lambert (RJL6)]

MJ Hatfield wrote    >Do you agree that this is how Arisaema triphyllum
seeds are dispersed in the wild? (This was posted on another
list.).......(snip)...Natural dispersal is by being eaten by birds or
mammals, the seeds coming out unharmed in the feces. So, if you decide to
propagate artificially, it improves germination to remove them from the red
flesh."

This fall something has been eating through the skin of the red drupe while
it is still attached to the erect fruithead and stem and inside, along with
whatever seed remains, there is a full house of feasting pillbugs.  Some of
the seed here this year is likely to be dispersed by gravity.

Nina Lambert

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>Thanks.
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>MJ Hatfield