Drift seed
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Drift seeds and drift fruit are seeds and fruit adapted for long-distance dispersal by water. Most are produced by tropical trees, and they can be found on distant beaches after drifting thousands of
Drift seeds of three legume species found at Kanda on the southern Mozambique coast in May 2004: 1. Snuff box sea bean (Entada rheedei) 2. Grey nickernut (Caesalpinia bonduc) 3. a,b Colour forms of ox-eye beans (Mucuna gigantea)
Nickernuts in fruit capsule
Seaheart seeds
Box fruit found washed up on a beach at Mnazi Bay, Tanzania, December 2006
Entada rheedei
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Entada rheedei, commonly known as African dream herb or snuff box sea bean, and as the cacoon vine in Jamaica, is a large woody liana or climber of the Mimosa clade Mimosoideae. The vine can grow as l
Drift seed
…Entada gigas – seaheart, (New World tropics, Africa) Entada rheedei – snuff box sea bean, from the tropics of the Indian Ocean Erythrina fusca – bucayo (pantropical…
Entada rheedii 04
Twisted stem
Foliage
Flower spike