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| Moving away from animal-dispersed bean seeds, wind has been a major dispersal agent for bean seeds. These mature black locust pods have dehisced on one side and are hanging/drying in the wind, waiting for a gust of wind strong enough to break them free at their base - if it is strong enough to do that, it is strong enough to carry the dry fruit for tens of meters down wind. The seeds themselves are attached firmly to the dry pod wall. The fruit is essentially a combination of a propeller and a snowboard. | ||
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