How rose flower seeds are dispersed?

how rose flower seeds are dispersed

How rose flower seeds are dispersed?
The primary vector for seed dispersal in roses is by birds. The fleshy fruit (rose hips) is highly attractive to birds and the prickly seeds are either discarded or pass unharmed through the bird's digestive system.





See: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/inde...





minootoo: Grafting and rooting have nothing to do with seed dispersal.





Added - While I appreciate your attempts toward making this a lively discussion, please let me correct some of your inserted statements, which are either misleading or still off topic. (1) You are not correct when you say that "all seeds are dispersed by wind, birds, and animals" (side note: birds _are_ animals). Animals have little role to play in the dispersal of wind-dispersed seeds (e.g., dandelion) and wind has very little to do with the dispersal of large seeds/seeds in large fruits (e.g, fruit of the African sausage tree). Your statement also ignores dispersal of seeds by water, gravity/ballistic means, and fire. (2) Why obscure the issue by allowing only that I'm correct with regard to the "literal interpretation" of the question? If we're going to routinely provide off-topic answers on here, I think that will only be to the detriment of this site. They asked about seed dispersal, not human attempts at grafting roses, and my answer was about seed dispersal. (3) Finally, hybridization and gene duplication (aka polyploidization) are two very important mechanisms of speciation in plants -- and, incidentally, quite prevalent in the rose family -- so it is misleading to talk about hybrid failure as a general rule in plants. They hybridize much more easily than animal taxa on average, and new taxa (which do not "revert to their original roots") often arise naturally as a consequence of this hybridization.





ThenozhiR: You do realize that the sole purpose of flowers is to produce seeds (aka fertilized ovules) on the chance that they will be dispersed and form a new plant (aka offspring), yes? Granted, flowers do not "transform" into seeds per se, but the process of seed production is not a whole lot different from that simple description either.
Reply:All seed are dispersed by wind, birds, and animals.





In case of rose and other plants. When all the petals falls off, then it forms a pod (Hip) which contains seed, they fall to the ground sooner or later and most of the time they do not produce new young plant but once in while a new plant comes up. In many cases birds eat the pods up and some seed will find the way to the ground in birds dropping also, they may be good to germinate or not.





In General. Humnans dispers the "PLant itself", for propegation.





Rose is Dispersed (propagated) by:





1. Grafting, a hybrid on a regular sturdy rose or a maple, plant. For detail put "Grafting methods" in any search engine.





2. Rooting, a cut or a twig is taken and then place in a water container with rooting compound(fertiliser high in phosphate, bone ash). It will form roots and then it can be planted in ground or in a pots, preferred method is to pot it and then after a season or more put it in the ground, or garden.





In both these cases, one has to be very care full not to let is get out of hand. In many location a licence is needed to commercially propagate the plants. There may be other liabilities, such as copy write and the patents.





3. They come up from the roots also but if you let that happen then you will loose the hybrid.





I do have few wild roses that propagate from self seeding every now and then.





Thenozhi... is correct, but I am trying to grow them from pods in a pot, let see what happens.





"mavster" you are completely correct as far as litteral interpretation of this Q?, goes, but natural dispersal is a means to achieve the propergation of plant to that end, No. 1 and No. 2 are the main method used comercially.





Most of the roses that we see in a garden are hybrid and in case of any hybrid, natural dispersment hardly works and when it does work , it produce some defferent variety (loooses the hybrid, and reverts back to it original roots).
Reply:I never heard that the reoseflower transforms to a seed to reproduce rose plants,but I have planted bits of its branches in the wet soil for about 3 to 4 inches deep and watered it regularly and found new leaves emergomg after a weeks time.Ok be happy.

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