5 of the World's Most Bizarre Seeds

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Some of the plants have adapted their systems to spread their seeds. But some of those plants have very unique way to disperse their seeds. Olivia introduces the 5 of the most bizarre seeds in the world! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Bryce Daifuku, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Charles George, Bader AlGhamdi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: extension.illinois.edu/gpe/case3/c3facts2.html www.jstor.org/stable/30043644 www.nature.com/news/2008/080205/full/news.2008.555.html www.britannica.com/plant/squirting-cucumber www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2016/01/epn2016471p27.pdf academic.oup.com/jxb/article/64/15/4745/462045/Slow-fast-and-furious-understanding-the-physics-of eol.org/pages/1156195/details www.britannica.com/plant/sandbox-tree onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1977.tb02174.x/epdf www.kew.org/discover/blogs/archived-blogs/orchid-seeds-%E2%80%93-nature%E2%80%99s-tiny-treasures onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1469-8137.2000.00587.x/full eol.org/pages/1140238/overview onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1756-1051.2002.tb01371.x/abstract www.newscientist.com/article/dn26930-the-secret-of-the-worlds-largest-seed-revealed/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13272/abstract www.iucnredlist.org/details/38602/0 Image Sources: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Burrs.png en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tucum_Palm_(Bactris_glaucescens)_(28714257524).jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pantanal_55.76W_15.40S.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B9_(Pacu).jpeg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hura_crepitans_in_Tropengew%C3%A4chsh%C3%A4user_des_Botanischen_Gartens_02.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hura_crepitans,_pod_of_the_Sandbox_Tree._(11239931434).jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hura_crepitans#/media/File:Hura_crepitans_(fruit).jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hura_crepitans#/media/File:Hura_crepitans.jpg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cranefly_seeds.JPG commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cycnoches_chlorochilon#/media/File:R._Warner_%26_B.S._Williams_-_The_Orchid_Album_-_volume_06_-_plate_263_(1887).jpg upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Coco_de_mer_-_Lodoicea_maldivica.jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Location_Seychelles_AU_Africa.svg commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coco_de_mer_leafs.jpg

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