Pete(r)

Prickly gooseberry - that pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? Why would a fruit arm itself against consumption?!? It seems self-defeating, unless big berry-gulping mammals like myself make for poor seed-dispensers (guilty as charged), and only some better consumer (birds, probably) can handle the prickles and also do the sowing of seeds. Maybe a bird’s gut is the right environment to prep the seeds for germination (that’s a thing)? I don’t need answers - I just like talking to myself in the woods, and sometimes that takes the form of an endless series of rhetorical botanical queries, such as these.
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