section_path: Seed dispersal
section_name: Seed dispersal
paragraph_text: Seed dispersal
  
  Following the pollination of a flower, fertilization, and finally the development of a seed and fruit, a mechanism is typically used to disperse the fruit away from the plant. In Angiosperms (flowering plants) seeds are dispersed away from the plant so as to not force competition between the mother and the daughter plants, as well as to enable the colonization of new areas. They are often divided into two categories, though many plants fall in between or in one or more of these: