When wind or other disturbances detach winged maple seeds called samaras from their parent tree, they spin through the air – and can even spin when it’s raining. Impacts by high-speed raindrops only ...

Samara are winged seeds, and the wafer-like seed cases of elm trees are distinctive, as well as tenderly edible. They appear in mid-spring, with each seed wrapped neatly in a soft chartreuse ...

Winged thistle is a winter annual, which means it generally establishes from seed in autumn, grows as a typical thistle rosette over winter, then develops an upright flower stem in spring, from which ...

One of the earliest examples of a winged seed found in a mine in China Oct 13, 2024 Light-controlled artificial maple seeds could monitor the environment even in hard-to-reach locations ...

Andrew Dickerson receives funding from the National Science Foundation. When wind or other disturbances detach winged maple seeds called samaras from their parent tree, they spin through the air ...