How does a mescal bean spread it's seeds?

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Mescal beans grow to 1-11 m tall, with a trunk up to 20 cm diameter, often growing in dense thickets reproducing from root sprouts. The leaves are evergreen, leathery, 6-15 cm long, pinnate with 5-11 oval leaflets, 2-5 cm long and 1-3 cm broad. The flowers, produced in spring, are fragrant, purple, typical pea-flower in shape, borne in erect or spreading racemes 4-10 cm long. The fruit is a hard, woody legume (furry bean pod) 2-15 cm long, containing 1-6 OVAL BRIGHT RED SEEDS 1-1.5 cm long and 1 cm diameter. The bean pod dries (rots) on the shrub/tree, falls and, ideally, it splits open, dropping the seeds out, and some are carried off by the wind, rain or even squirrels.  But...they really need help to germinate. The seeds must be nicked (with either a sharp knife, file, sandpaper, Drumel tool, etc.) and soaked for 12 hours in warm water prior to planting. That's why the plant relies on root sprouts to reproduce. It likes alkaline soil, such as occurs in the desert, Texas, and Florida.

All parts of the mescal beans are very poisonous, containing the alkaloid cytisine (not mescaline, as suggested by the name). The seeds or other parts of the plant have been reported to have been used as a hallucinogen by some Native American people, but this is uncertain, due to confusion over names. The symptoms of cytisine poisoning are very unpleasant, including nausea and seizures; as little as one seed can be fatal.