July 4, 2010
In February I was birding on Fort Desoto and came across this specimen of a gray nickernut plant. The seed pods were bursting open and gave me a great look at where these popular seabeans come from. Some interesting facts about nickernuts from the excellent book, Sea-Beans from the Tropics, by Ed Perry IV and [...]
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July 18, 2009
Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com. While on Upham beach this morning gathering a couple of bags of sargassum seaweed for my garden, I spotted this sea coconut in the wrack line. It’s not a real coconut, but it does come from a palm tree. These are very common on the Atlantic coast, but are [...]
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