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Articles of seeds

  • It is fruit season: chestnuts, hazelnuts, nuts, bellots, bruises... However, the most abundant of our landscapes are grapes and apple. That is, the homemade fruit we use. As you can imagine, there, here and there, millions of fruits are being produced non-stop. These fruits are seed travel vessels. Fruits are gadgets to spread the seeds and get to a place as far away as possible.
Goiloraren (Epilobium hirsutum) haziak hegan egiteko tramankuluak prest, haizearen zain. (Arg.: Jakoba Errekondo)
Goiloraren (Epilobium hirsutum) haziak hegan egiteko tramankuluak prest, haizearen zain. (Arg.: Jakoba Errekondo)

These gadgets will give way to the future of seeds: the fruit will develop in order for an animal to eat and cast it somewhere else during the days, odours, palates, colors, etc. The wind to be carried shall add wings, wings, feathers or parachutes to the seed. In fact, everything is seed. The whole future of everything, which will never be the same. The mother plant that has given the seed will not know anyone like her, it is the new one, and it is that seed that creates possibilities for this new one to be better than the mother. A plant can give a lot of seeds each year, and each of them is the path to a new variety of plants.

The Botany of Desire: Around A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (Random House, 2001), in his beautiful book “The Botany of Desire: A View of the World”, Michael Pollan mentions the apple (Malus x domestica), and about it says: “Over and above any other characteristic, the genetic versatility of apples — its unavoidable, wild side — gives you the power to feel at home in New England, New Zealand, Kazakhstan or California in completely different places. Whatever the place where the apple tree goes, its descendants propose a certain variety of what is an apple – at least five per block, thousands per tree – and at least a couple of them are almost obliged to have the characteristics necessary to advance in the domestication of the fruit tree.”

That is, the seed, about five in each apple, thousands in each apple, is the opportunity to create a new type of apple that, as it's easy to confuse, acquires the ability to adapt to very different lands.

And then, when you put a seed in your mouth, know that if you go whole it can be a new plant; Phaseolus vulgaris, if you break a bite like a bean, a missed opportunity.


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