Seed bank may refer to:
- Seedbank, a repository of preserved seeds
- The store of viable plant seed in an ecosystem; for example:
- Soil seed bank, the viable seed present in the soil;
- Canopy seed bank, the viable seed stored in the canopy of a serotinous tree or shrub.
Famous quotes containing the words seed and/or bank:
“I don’t think I was constructed to be monogamous. I don’t think it’s the nature of any man to be monogamous.... Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed into as many females as possible.”
—Marlon Brando (b. 1924)
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)