Brazilian botanists have caught Mother Nature playing with squirt guns.
SQUIRT CORNERS. The rain forest Bertolonia mosenii forms seeds in triangular brown capsules (above), which have open corners. Each capsule (below, left) reveals hundreds of seeds if someone peels the top open (at right, below). Pizo
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