Fruit: Edible, Inedible, Incredible

A horse shoe vetch
Wolfgang Stuppy & Rob Kesseler / Papadakis

Not Horsing Around
the lightweight construction of the horseshoe vetch (Hippocrepis unisiliquosa), from Eurasia and Africa, may assist wind dispersal. The peripheral bristles help hook the fruit onto passing animals.

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