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Drift Seeds and Drift Fruits
... lunar-like crater of Haleakala on the island of Maui. This remarkable plant and its relatives are descendents of an ancestral California tarweed (Hemizonia) that reached these islands millions of ... American rain forests, Daniel H. Janzen (Science Vol. 215, 1982), large grazing mammals, including extinct pleistocene elephants called gomphotheres, may have once eaten the pods and dispersed the seeds ...
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The World of Gourds
... D.H. Janzen and P.S. Martin (Science Vol. 215, 1982), large grazing mammals, including extinct pleistocene elephants called gomphotheres, may have once eaten the huge gourds and dispersed the seeds ... eaten with a main entree (but not as a dessert), all of the edible gourd relatives are really botanical fruits. They all contain seeds and develop from an ovary just below ...
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Mucuna--Sea Beans
... (hilum) where the stalk was attached produces the characteristic layered appearance (hamburger seed). Sea bean relatives that belong to the tropical Old World genus Strongylodon and the New World genus Oxyrhynchus ... Mucuna. According to the Foster Botanical Garden in Honolulu, Hawaii, this unusual tree may be extinct in the wild. It is included here because of the resemblance of its seeds to ...
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