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The secret life of seeds

The amazing seed is one of nature’s extraordinary accomplishments. Each fertile seed contains the complete genetic form for a new plant. Seeds can survive forest fires, freezing temperatures, burial, even ingestion by humans, animals and birds, sometimes using these hazards to their own advantage.

Seeds come in all manner of shapes and sizes, colour and in some instances smell – try carrot! The largest is coconut, then you go right down to trailing lobelia and begonia with almost

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