Showing posts with label sea beans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sea beans. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Sea Bean Society...Who Knew?!

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.


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.”