Fruits and pods
The fruits and pods are the ‘packaging’ which protect the seeds.
The embryo is fragile, and must wait for the right moment to breach its protection and begin its development.
It is surrounded by several skins, shells, husk, drupe…
Some of these fruits must dry out and open in order to release the seed, others have made themselves delicious in order to be carried far away riding in an animal’s stomach.
Each plant has a way for disseminating its seeds (diaspora), strategy which can be understood by observing the shape of its seeds or fruits.
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Dragon fruit 40 cm. Real size: 10 cm -
Thelocactus fruit, 50 cm. Real size: 5 cm -
Aloe eminens, fruit, 40 cm, real size : 4 cm -
Star anise, 40 cm -
Bladder-senna pod, 70 cm -
Alfaalfa pod, 40 cm, -
Enterolobium fruit, 50 cm, real size: 5 cm -
Eucalyptus pod, 40 cm -
Dried tangerine, 35 cm -
Snapdragon pod, 45 cm -
Onobrychis, 50 cm -
Physalis franchetti, 40 cm -
Dried pear, 60 cm -
Rose bush fruit, saggar firing, 37 cm -
Tabacco pod, 35 cm, smoked terracotta and ancient tool -
Silene pod, 35 cm -
Arbutus berry, 40 cm -
Camelia sinensis, 35 cm -
Black walnut, 20 cm -
Cardamome, 30 cm -
Flax pod, 40 cm -
Tétraptéra tétrapleura pod, 50 cm -
platycodon, 20 cm -
Camelia fruit, wickerwork and ceramic
