dandelion seeds
Puffball's airborne offspring
The fluffy, parachute-like structures that form the white puffball of a mature dandelion.
Each seed has a tuft of fine bristles that catches the wind, spreading the plant far from its parent.
Children blow on them to make wishes: She closed her eyes and scattered the dandelion seeds with a breath.
- blowballSeeded dandelion head
- parachuteDrag-creating descent device
- pappusSeed's dispersal tuft
- fleetingnessQuality of passing quickly
- wishesThings hoped for
make a wish · dispersal · air · ephemeral · clock · tell the time · childhood · light · puff · fly · blow away · gossamer · windborne · germination · soft · weightless · wind · summer breeze
- wind-bornepollen, spores, dust, ash, sand
- nature signstree rings, bird migration, animal behavior, cloud formations, rainbow
- propagulesspores, spore, bulbs, cuttings, tubers
- airborne lifedragonflies, gnats, mayflies, midges, bird migration
- dandelion foods
- wind indicatorsanemometer, wind vane, weathervane, windsock, wind sock
dispersal mechanism
dandelion seedscoconut
Hard-shelled tropical drupe
burrs · acorn · acorns · avocado pit · cherry pits