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Tropical forest seeds

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August 3, 2018

Paul-Camilo Zalamea and Jorge Ceballos/STRI

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Scanning electron micrograph of a seed of the tropical tree Cecropia insignis, after burial for one month in the forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama.

Credit: Paul-Camilo Zalamea and Jorge Ceballos/Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

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