James W. Amrine Jr., West Virginia University, Bugwood.org
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licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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A dissected hip: the soft fruit shell is on the right (typical of mid-November), five normal-sized seed are at the upper left, and three "dwarf" seed, representing unpollinated ovules at the lower left; note the abundant, sharply tapered fibers that are always present in the hip; they irritate the digestive tract of song birds, causing the seed to move quickly through the gut (in just a few hours).
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Micrograph
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Tuesday, January 8, 2002
Image last updated:
Saturday, January 23, 2016
