Ingenuity

None of these seeds will ever grow into an adult tree. They won’t put out leaves in the spring or anchor themselves to the soil with their roots.

But what if they did? What if every single one of them grew, even for a moment? Trees growing so close together would never survive for long. In a healthy forest, the distance between trees is deliberately much greater.

Nature has its own cunning ways for seeds to start their lives as far away from the parent tree as possible. Can you guess how?