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The following sea-beans were collected by Linda in North Carolina

Unidentified! Mary guessed that this seed MAY be a very small, dried and shrivelled up fruit of a Sausage Tree It LOOKS like a dried Sausage Tree fruit, but if it is, it's a very small one... it's only 3 inches or so. These fruits get quite large, and very heavy, when mature. However, they do start out small and are comparatively light when dried. Ed guessed a dried Papaya fruit, Carica papaya, but suggested opening the fruit to learn more. Kevin stated: The pod is a kapok seedpod, Bombax ceiba. If it is cut open, there are seeds and fluff inside. It might be a fruit that was picked green (or broke off green) and drifted down river and out to sea. Finding NO images of Bombax ceiba on the web, I posted photos of my Kapok pod & seeds... I have no clue what species I have, but it is a similar pod!

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Unidentified!