https://senseofplace.pub/2026/06/18/unwrapping-the-box-seeds-spores-and-the-forest-inside-the-turtle/Sense of Placeen2026-06-18T08:50:58+00:00Unwrapping the Box: Seeds, Spores, and the Forest Inside the Turtlebirds, nature, wildlife, plant, spring, reptiles, Plants, native-plants, biodiversity, phenology, in bloom, habitat, turtles, natural history, box turtle, backyard nature, spring ephemerals, conservation, fungus, mushrooms, ecology, mayapple, culture, fungi, food, sense of place, ethnobotany, forest ecology, ecosystem services, forests, nature connection, Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina, Box Turtles, Terrapene, Herpetology, Woodland Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina, Wildlife Ecology, Habitat Connectivity, Seed Dispersal, Landscape Ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Fungal Spore Dispersal, The Serviceberry, Forest Floor, Reciprocity, Gifts of Nature, Mycology, Spores, Podophyllum peltatum, Seed Germination, Scarification, Plant-Animal Interactions, Mayapples