Yesterday we went down to the wetlands. What we call "the wetlands" is a place next to our school teeming with plants and animal life. We collected four seed types down by a wide river that runs through the land. We stored them in tins until we came back to school and inspected them, here are all the seed types that we collected...1) Kowhai seeds
- small and yellow
- bead shaped
- covered in multiple circle shaped seed coverings when hanging from a tree
2) Liquid Amber seeds
- spiky on the outside
- colour ranging from green to brown
- suspended on tree by thin wooden twig
3) Karo seeds
- small, sticky and black seeds
- encased in a circular wooden covering with deep indents
4) London Plane Tree seeds
- outside covered in pin sized wooden circles
- fingernail sized wooden seed in the middle of coverage.
- seeds covered in light brown fluff that look like a dandelions
- suspended on tree by thin wooden twig
The pictures for each seed are displayed beside the text in the order that the written classifications are. The reason we collected the seeds is because we are going to plant them in these paper pots that we made out of newspaper and once the shoots have shown we'll plant them in the ground along the river as part of our wai restoration project that my class is working on.
Me and my class mates found it super fun trying to figure out the types of trees that the seeds were. Me and my group were so excited once we had gotten them all right.
Do you have any seeds that are around your school or house? If so, make sure to write them down in the comments!
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