stackyFACTSMother Nature occasionally gets bored of gentle breezes carrying seeds and decides to weaponize a tree instead. The sandbox tree grows completely terrifying spiked pods that dry out and violently detonate, launching flat seeds at ballistic speeds. Standing next to one during seed dispersal is essentially wandering into a vegetative warzone.
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