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Nickernuts (Caesalpinia)- A Prickly Situation

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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A closer look at Bill Blazek's collection of sea coconuts, each polished by hand with progressively finer grades of sandpaper. They are beautiful.

Sea Coconut Drifts from South America to St. Pete Beach

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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