As the prickly seed pod of the Datura dries out it splits open and drops the many seeds stored inside. This is known a dihesence, a process used in ma

---

As the prickly seed pod of the Datura dries out it splits open and drops the many seeds stored inside. This is known a dihesence, a process used in many plants for seed dispersal

---

Size: 5500px × 4890px
Location: Scarborough, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: adaptation, alkaloids, angiosperms, annual, attractive, beautiful, bells, botanical, botany, calyx, capsule, carpels, case, datura, delirium, devil’, dicotyledon, eudicots, family, filament, flora, flower, flowering, flowers, garden, habitat, head, hell’, hue, innoxia, life, moon, nectary, nightshade, petal, plant, plants, poisonous, poisons, potions, prickly, propagation, protection, reproduction, robust, seasonal, seed, shape, solanoidae, spikey, stamen, stigma, structure, summer, thorn-apple, thorns, toxic, tropane, trumpet, vegetation, white, witchcraft, woodlands