Some seeds stick to animals and some are shot out by the flower. Non flowering plants like ferns and mosses don’t even have seeds. They begin their life cycle as ‘Spores’. Spores are created ...

Plants are able to reproduce in two different ways - sexual reproduction and asexual reproducion. Sexual reproduction involves pollen from one flower fertilising the egg of another to produce a seed.

For rural communities, especially those in bamboo-rich regions, the memory of these famines remains vivid — a reminder of the dangers behind what appears to be a simple plant life cycle.