Real Audio Avocado Seeds Lesson People usually encounter avocados only after they've been mashed up into pasty green guacamole.
Plants have a variety of methods for spreading their seeds.
Some plants spread their seeds by exploding or catapulting them away. Seeds of edible fruits and berries are widely distributed by birds and animals that eat but do not digest them. Still other types of seeds may be buried by animals and forgotten, thus allowing for eventual germination. The mechanisms for seed dispersal are diverse, and quite ingenious, really. This story investigates how the avocado seed is spread, providing an interesting introduction to the larger topic of seed dispersal.