seed pods
Botanical embryo housings
Seed pods are the protective casings that develop around seeds in many plants, typically splitting open when mature to release their contents.
They come in countless shapes—the long pods of beans and peas, the papery lanterns of milkweed, the explosive capsules of touch-me-nots.
The dried seed pods rattled in the wind.
- peaEdible pod seed
- capsuleEnclosed dose container
- legumePod-producing plant family
- rattleShaking sound maker
- dried outDevoid of moisture
split open · follicle · milkweed · samara · compound leaves · husk · achene · shell · burst · scatter · fall to the ground · brown · lotus · bird food · beans · parachutes · perennial · nature walk
- forest floorfallen leaves, leaf litter, dead leaves, rotting wood, rotting logs
- found materialsfound objects, driftwood, sea glass, bottle caps, shells
- natural decorpinecones, driftwood, seashells, branches, twigs
- dried botanicalsdried flowers, dried lavender, dried roses, dried leaves, dried herbs
- potpourridried flowers, rose petals, lavender, cinnamon sticks, cloves
- seed dispersaldispersal, burrs, samara, tumbleweeds, coconuts