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How do cactus's disperse seeds?

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Seeds are ordinarily dispersed intact with the fruiting body, the cypsela. Wind dispersal is common (anemochory) assisted by a hairy pappus. Another common variation is epizoochory, in which the dispersal unit, a single cypsela (e.g. Bidens) or entire capitulum (e.g. Arctium) provided with hooks, spines or some equivalent structure, sticks to the fur or plumage of an animal (or even to clothes, like in the photo) just to fall off later far from its mother plant.

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Seeds come from the cactus fruit. The fruit develops from the ovary. The ovary develops from the pollinated and then withered flower.

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It depends on the type of catus. My echinops is a day blooming cactus and the bright red blossoms attract bees. Night blooming cereus are pollinated by bats who may be drawn to the strong fragrance.

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by water, wind, explosive action and animals

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On the occasion that its flowers open, flying insects such as wasps pollinate it like a normal plant or flower.

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