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Papaveraceae

18-Stylophorum seeds

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Close-up of seeds of Stylophorum diphyllum. Note the pale colored elaiosome on each seed that attracts ants to carry the seeds away from the parent plant.

Photo by K. R. Robertson and D. L. Nickrent.

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