Explosive plants

Plants in our world evolved various kinds of defenses, like poison, urticating hairs, thorns etc.

The explosion by itself can stun or scare a herbivore and dennounce its position for possible predators, while on later stage of evolution, shrapnel launching plant might use explosions to launch small thorn-like structures towards predators.

How can a plant produce controlled explosions biochemically ? How can it prevent the explosions and shrapnel from damaging its own self ?

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