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| The story of the Costa Rican Andira inermis (yet another Fabaceae) tree and its seed shadow illustrate many of the above points in a single animal-plant interaction. This large tree produces huge numbers of lavender bee-pollinated flowers in the dry season. For each of 100-1000 flowers, the parent plant produces a single large single-seeded spherical fruit about 3 cm in diameter. But notice that the fruits are on the ends of projecting twiglets, easily visible and accessible well above the canopy - no monkey-dispersed fruit that. | ||
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