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 34 acacia-ant fruits DHJanzen100116.jpg high resolution
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| A branch of Acacia collinsii with yellow inflorescences (very short branches with hundreds of tiny flowers), green immature inflorescences, full-sized but immature dark green fruits (pods), and an opened mature fruit (with the yellow fruit pulp with seeds inside that, and one seed hanging on a pulp fiber). You may ask yourself what kind of seed dispersal agent would brave the ants to get the sweet pulp around the seeds, thereby dispersing the seeds. | ||
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