The things one finds...on beaches and on internet searches!
This find was very apposite given those coco de mer seed photos I just posted. What a fun collection to start if you live near a beach where stuff washes up.
This photo is from Barrier Island Sanctuary is at seabean.com...a fascinating website. The 19th Annual Sea-Bean Symposium will be held in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on October 17-18, 2014.
This find was very apposite given those coco de mer seed photos I just posted. What a fun collection to start if you live near a beach where stuff washes up.
This photo is from Barrier Island Sanctuary is at seabean.com...a fascinating website. The 19th Annual Sea-Bean Symposium will be held in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on October 17-18, 2014.
I learned there that seeds that are dispersed by water are called drift seeds as well as sea-beans.
Here is a good interview with park ranger Ed Perry, Florida native and a 25-year veteran park ranger at the Sebastian Inlet with facts and fun anecdotes about drift seeds...he's collected them since he was a kid. “I’ve picked up about 240 different species on Florida’s beaches and I’ve been able to identify about 220 of those species.”
