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Re: Recording exploding seeds?

Subject: Re: Recording exploding seeds?
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:20:55 -0700
>The flowers of witch-hazel open in September and October, and the fruit
>ripens the next fall.  Shortly after ripening, the capsules burst open,
>discharging their seed

Somewhere back around 1981 I was hiking with my eldest son up Mount
Sutro in San Francisco. When we got to the summit, there was a steady
rattle of seed pods on the bushes along the trail exploding in the
hot sun.

-Dan Dugan


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