The Sweet Science of Seed Dispersal
Flowering plants and trees produce fruits specifically to carry and protect their seeds. Furthermore, for millennia, humans and wildlife have actively propagated these edible treats as they forage and travel. Consequently, this creates a brilliant symbiotic relationship: animals enjoy a delicious, nutrient-dense meal, while the plants successfully scatter their seeds across vast distances.
Generally, nature designs these fruits with appealing sweet or tart flavour profiles so we can eat them raw right off the branch. Today, thanks to modern transportation, grocery stores and supermarkets routinely stock an incredible variety of ready-to-eat global fruits year-round.
Test Your Knowledge: The Fruit Quiz
Now, can you identify the global fruits pictured below?
How to play: First, simply hover your mouse pointer over the grey box beneath each image to reveal the correct answer. Alternatively, if you are using a smartphone or tablet, press and hold your finger on the box instead.
How to download: You can also easily save any individual picture to your device.
- Click the image to enlarge it.
- Right-click the enlarged picture and select “Save image as…”
- Choose a location on your computer in the dialog box and save the file.
Usage rules & tips: Finally, please feel free to use any of these images to build your own private quizzes; however, you must not republish them in any format. As a helpful hint, we named each image file after the fruit it depicts, so the filename is the answer!
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