|
__NOTOC__ Drift seeds (also sea beans) and drift fruits are seeds and fruits adapted for long distance dispersal by water. Most are produced by tropical trees, and they can be found on distant beaches after drifting thousands of miles through ocean currents. Consequently, drift seeds and fruits are of interest to scientists who study these currents. In botanical terminology, a drift fruit is a kind of diaspore, and drift seeds and fruits are disseminules. == Sources of drift seeds == * ''Caesalpinia bonduc'' - grey nickernut * ''Caesalpinia major'' - yellow nickernut * ''Carapa guianensis'' - crabwood (New World tropics) * ''Entada gigas'' - seaheart, (New World tropics) * ''Entada rheedii'' - snuff box sea bean, from the tropics of the Indian Ocean * ''Erythrina fusca'' - bucayo (pantropical) * ''Erythrina variegata'' - tiger claw (Old World tropics)〔 * ''Mucuna'' spp. - ox-eye bean, hamburger seed, deer-eye bean * ''Ormosia'' spp. - horse-eye bean, from the tropics * ''Terminalia catappa'' - tropical almond, from the tropics of Asia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「drift seed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|