24 April 2015

Puhala tree seed pod


Photo via Teachings of Reason and Radiolab, neither of which provide credit re the original photographer and source.  I think I tracked it to colleeninhawaii.

(Reposted from 2013 for Arbor Day 2015) 

7 comments:

  1. Are all the little florets seeds, or only the large central mass?

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  2. It's wonderful. Reminds me of one of those artwork graphics for science of an exploding star shedding its outer layers.

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  3. It's really tasty too.

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  4. The seeds are in the segments, the middle bit is just filler. If you search for "pandanus fruit" you can find a bunch more cool things, like Pandanus conoideus fruit.

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  5. Thanks, CAC. I was just too lazy to look it up. I shall now remedy that.

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  6. Thank you for posting this! I see these pods all over Okinawa but never knew what they were

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