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wolfy42 posted...

Elves would naturally eat fruits and distribute the seeds like the plants intend.

That is of course the entire purpose of the trees and plants/bushes creating them in the first place.

This is also true. Fruit-bearing plants benefit from having the fruits be eaten. Even with grains and other seeds, the plants produce vastly more seeds than they actually expect to germinate, so if people eat most of the seeds but deliberately cultivate the remaining minority to ensure they survive, the plant is still see(d)ing a net benefit (this actually applies even when the seed-eating animals don't deliberately plant the seeds, since some inevitably get dropped or otherwise distributed). It's really just vegetables that don't benefit the plant for being eaten.