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The bag pod flowers are predominately yellow, with hints of pink or red. The leaves are evenly pinnately compound. 20 to 40 leaflet are present per leaf, they are oblong to elliptical in nature. The seed pods of Sesbania vesicaria are strongly beaked containing 1 to 3 seeds in each pod, 2 being the most prominent in nature. [2]
The fruit of P. heterophylla is a long, narrow pod that opens to release tufted seeds. [9] These seeds pods are around 15 cm long. [10] Each pod holds numerous seeds, and each one is tipped with a tuft of silky hairs. [4] The two-valved pod opens from the tip downwards, bending outwards and raising seeds up so that their tufts can be caught by ...
Seeds grow inside pods, like pea pods. If the grower wants to cultivate them, pods should be removed from the plant while still green to prevent exposure to winter temperatures. The seeds, which are technically beans, could be edible. [16] Parts of the true Corkscrew plant might be poisonous. [17] Corkscrew vine seedpods
It is one of several plants also known as bindi weed, bindii, or bindi-eye. A weedy plant known for its tiny sharp-needled seeds. It appears with small feathery leaves reminiscent of parsley, with an exposed upward-pointing rosette of seeds in a pod nestled at the branch junctions. Eventually small flowers appear if the plant is allowed to develop.
The fruit is a pod 5–10 cm long and 2.5 cm broad, red at first, ripening black, and containing one to four seeds. Trees begin to flower after about four years. [3] [4] budding leaves which are intensely brown at the beginning, but rapidly change colour during growth flower buds
The seeds can be roasted and used as a substitute for coffee beans. [7] The name 'camel thorn' refers to the fact that giraffe (kameelperd in Afrikaans) commonly feed on the leaves with their specially-adapted tongue and lips that can avoid the thorns. The scientific name 'erioloba' means "wooly lobe", a reference to the ear-shaped pods. [8]
The ratio between these seeds varies from 1:20 to 1:5, with darker seeds outnumbering lighter seeds. Reddish-dark seeds have a thinner coat and they germinate earlier than black seeds that have not first been acid treated. “Dark seeds have a harder seed coat and require various pretreatments to ensure good germination rates.” [5]
The shape of a samara enables the wind to carry the seed further away from the tree than regular seeds would go, [3] and is thus a form of anemochory. In some cases the seed is in the centre of the wing, as in the elms (genus Ulmus ), the hoptree ( Ptelea trifoliata ), and the bushwillows (genus Combretum ).