Monday, 25 December 2017

botany - Are there any fruits that rely on dispersal of their seeds using excrement?


Are there any fruits that have seeds which can survive the digestive entirety of an animal's digestive system and remain germinable once passed on in animal excrement?


Perhaps this is the primary function of all seeded fruits and I'm just fundamentally unaware of the intended biological processes. If so, then why do poisonous seeded fruits exist?




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