The twisted, winged seed (samara) of the tree Ailantus glandulosa, a member of the Simarubaceae from China. The twisted wing causes the seed to spin a

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The twisted, winged seed (samara) of the tree Ailantus glandulosa, a member of the Simarubaceae from China. The twisted wing causes the seed to spin as it falls, much like the more-familiar ash & sycamore samaras. The seed is thus borne away by the wind to colonise new ground away from the parent tree.

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Photo credit: © CLAUDE NURIDSANY & MARIE PERENNOU/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: ailantus, botany, china, dispersal, dispersed, glandulosa, key, nature, part, parts, plant, plants, reproduction, reproductive, samara, seed, structure, wind, winged