Plants that spread their seeds by the sun

Impatiens, pea, sorrel, chestnut, melon, soybean, hemp, cruciferous plants that spread their seeds by the sun. The fruit of impatiens will crack when it is dried by the sun, and then put the bullet in all directions. The pods of peas will explode in the sun, and the seeds in the pods will jump away. When the fruit of spray melon is ripe, it will spew out seeds when it is exposed to the sun.

1. Impatiens

Impatiens, also known as henna, impatient, daughter flower, etc., are widely cultivated in gardens all over China. Flowering July-October, fruiting after anthesis, capsule broadly fusiform, 10-20 mm long, both ends pointed, densely pilose. Seeds globose, 1.5-3 mm in diam., dark brown.

2. Peas

Peas, also known as green beans, wheat peas, cold beans, wheat beans, snow beans, Bidou, Ma Lei, Dutch beans, Uighur beans and so on, are mainly distributed in the central and northeastern regions. From July to September, the pods are long oval, 2.5-10 cm long and 0.7-14 cm wide, with the top obliquely acute and the back nearly straight; the seeds are 2-10, round, turquoise and turn yellow when dry.

3. Spray melon

Spray melon, also known as iron cannon melon, is the most powerful fruit, which is cultivated in the north of our country. Its fruit is like a big cucumber, dark green, oblong or ovate-oblong, 4-5 cm long and 1.5-2.5 cm wide, with yellowish-brown short bristles, extremely swollen after maturity, and a hole from the pedicel behind the base. the seed and fruit juice are sprayed out by the contraction of the pulp. Seeds brown or subblack, ca. 4 mm.