2007-10-13 Day trip to Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina, to check on seed production of Triphora trianthophora. From bloom to seed dispersal took only sixty days. Many of the seed capsules that were formed thirty days after bloom were missing -- due either to animal browse/trampling or failure to mature. However, some were able to fully mature and scatter their thousands of seeds.

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