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How Plants Sow Their Seeds

We all know that plants have seeds and when these seeds fall to the ground, some of them grow and
become new plants. One of the interesting things about plants is the different ways they have of spreading
their seeds.

Plants that have fruit expect that animals and birds will eat the fruit and carry the seeds in their bodies,
dropping them in a different place.

Other plants have seeds with hooks on them and the hooks stick on to animals and people who are passing
by. These seeds too can be carried for long distances.

Very small seeds, like the seeds of grasses, are carried by the wind to other places. There are plants which
have a sort of “parachute” on each seed, which helps the seed to float through the air more easily. Some
kinds of trees have a seed with a propeller on it which spins as it falls to the ground and is carried more
easily by the wind in this way.

Trees also use water to send their seeds for long distances. One of the biggest seeds of any tree or plant is
the coconut: We often see coconuts floating in rivers or in the sea. When they are washed up on a river
bank or beach, the coconut puts out leaves and then roots.

These are some of the ways in which trees and flowering plants spread through a country and are carried
from one country to another.