Table 2.

Proportion (%) of M. fraseri seeds stored for 6–66 months in a restoration seed bank that either sank (Figure 1C) or floated (Figure 1D) when immersed in water for 5 min

	Immersion response (%)
Storage duration	Sinkers	Floaters
6 months	58.6 (n = 17)	41.4 (n = 12)
18 months	72.4 (n = 21)	27.6 (n = 8)
30 months	96.2 (n = 25)	3.8 (n = 1)
42 months	29.4 (n = 10)	70.6 (n = 24)
54 months	0.0 (n = 0)	100.0 (n = 32)
66 months	0.0 (n = 0)	100.0 (n = 30)