here in india we have a plant which has seed pods that
explode when they get wet. as school children we use
to wet them and drop down the back of a classmate's
shirt. it normally exploded about half a minute later,
to much mirth. never thought of recording it.
umashankar
--- Lou Judson <> wrote:
> Along these lines, the wisteria in our backyard has
> big pods, that if
> not removed, explode in the summer sun and throw
> seeds 50 feet at
> times... We have many more volunteer wisteria than
> we want!
>
> <L>
> On Sep 7, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Dan Dugan wrote:
>
> >> 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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