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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... to Sherwin Carlquist (Hawaii: A Natural History, 1980), only about 14 percent of the original flowering plant immigrants to the Hawaiian Islands are clearly adapted to oceanic drift. If dispersal by ... ) coincides with coconut palms throughout the tropical Pacific region. The post-larval stage of these crabs may have actually rafted on coconuts from island to island. See Coconut Crab Buttons See ...
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Fruit Identification Outline
... seabird drowns in the surf and is consumed by ravenous beach crabs. See Anthocarp Of Desert San Verbena See Flower Branch Of The ... about the remarkable duckweed family (Lemnaceae), the undisputed world's smallest flowering plants. Just click on the green Lemnaceae tab for a ... scales instead of enclosed within an a ovary as in flowering plants. Because the ovules are exposed to the wind-blown ...
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Nickernut
... with brown or yellowish-brown seeds. They are members of the third largest family of flowering plants, the Pea Family (Fabaceae). The seeds are smooth and shiny at maturity, but continued ... . Another bizarre use for nickernuts in the Virgin Islands involves the eviction of undesirable land crabs from their burrows in urbanized areas. A single nickernut placed in the crab burrow reportedly ...
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Seagrasses
... Index Noteworthy Plants Trivia Lemnaceae Biology 101 Botany Search Marine Seagrasses Flowering Plants Adapted To Sea Water Some flowering plants live submersed in ocean water of bays, estuaries and along ... eelgrass meadows, the results of which were catastrophic. Populations of cod, shellfish, scallops and crabs were greatly diminished, and the oyster industry was ruined. There was also a serious ...
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