Pal Hermansen / Sprouting Soy beans (Glycine max) against white background

Pal Hermansen / Colourful corn (Zea mays) seeds against white background.

Alan Murphy / Boreal Chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus) feeding on pine cone seeds, Alaska

Chris Mattison / Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) seedhead, focus stacked image.

Markus Varesvuo / Bearded reedling / tit (Panurus biarmicus) female feeding in reeds, Espoo, Finland, March

Markus Varesvuo / Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) on seedheads, Helsinki, Finland, December

Markus Varesvuo / Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) on seedheads, Helsinki Finland December. Magic Moments book plate.

Konrad Wothe / Gliding seed of Climbing Gourd (Alsomitra macrocarpa) in tropical rainforest, West Papua, New Guinea, Indonesia, digital composite

Juergen Freund / Seeds and flower from large tropical almond, sea almond, beach almond (Terminalia catappa) against black sand, Sulawesi beach, Indonesia

Gary K. Smith / Woodland floor with purple fungi Amethyst Deceiver (Laccaria amethystina), and fallen seed cases and fruit of Sweet Chestnut tree (Castanea savita) Norfolk, UK, October

Marie Read / Pinyon Jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus), gathering Pinyon Pine seeds in autumn. Mono Lake Basin, California, USA, October.

Floris van Breugel / Sprouting Coconut palm on stony beach on the south shore of Tutuila, American Samoa. January 2012.