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Which plant produce the World's smallest seeds?
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- bravozuluLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It may be orchids. Their seeds are so small they usually need a fungus or something to help them survive.
"Certain epiphytic orchids of the tropical rain forest produce the world's smallest seeds weighing only 35 millionths of an ounce. They are dispersed into the air like minute dust particles or single-celled spores, eventually coming to rest in the upper canopy of rain forest trees."
Source(s): http://waynesword.palomar.edu/plfeb96.htm - Anonymous1 decade ago
I did a search on the terms "smallest seed" and several of the results have stated that orchid seeds are the smallest.
Source(s): www.ministerturnsatheist.org/biblescienceblunders.html www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0932544.html diogenesii.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/what-is-the-smallest-seed-in-the-world - Anonymous1 decade ago
It's definitely some kind of orchid. Most seedlings rely on the stored nutrients in the seed to get going and reach a stage where they can start to photosynthesise, but baby orchids get all their food by attaching to mycorrhyzae in the soil.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
a banana plant!
