I have a question about plants and seeds!!?

Question

Describe the means of how these seeds are dispersed.
-Tell how the seeds of this plant would be transported to a place away from the parent plant.


Here is where the seeds came from
- peach
-lemon
- weeds( “stickers” or “hitch-hiker” type seeds.)
-acorn
- apple

Answer 1

Sticker type weed seeds have burrs on them that stick to animal fur or human clothes and get brushed off somewhere away from the original plant.

Acorns are most often planted by squirrels intending to save them for a future meal. More get planted than re-dug so that is a major source of new oak trees.

Apples are eaten by deer and cows, seeds and all. Since the seeds are not digestible they end up passing out in manure (after the animal travels away from their eating site) and thus start with their own collection of organic fertilizer to help them grow.

Peach stones are a little large but I guess a big ruminant could take them in and poop them out.

I don't know how lemon seeds are spread since they are inside a fruit that most creatures would not find very tasty.

Answer 2

The dispersal by animals is called zoochory:
there are the endozoochory, when fruits are eaten and epizoochory, when they are stickers.
Peaches and apples fall down from the tree, lemons remain there in an exposed position before they are eaten ( lemons often from birds ), the acorns fall down too and are collected by squirrels, birds and wild pigs.
Examples for stickers and hitch-hikers are: Medicago and Galium ( barbed ) or Plantago and Juncus ( mucilage ).