I do love walking the beach. Beachcombing for drift seeds is just about the top of my list for "relaxing activities".
The big, squarish, netted, one is a Box Fruit, Barringtonia asiatica seabean.com
This one is large by comparison to those that I have found before. They can be quite brittle and smell of fouling critters that have attached during the drift. This one had a number of goose-neck barnacles Lepas anserifera (?) attached. I consider Box Fruit a special prize when beachcombing since I rarely find more than 5 or so a year.
The dark maroon heart-shaped seed is (easy one) a Sea Heart Entada gigas www.seabean.com
This one is particularly "hearty" and it to has fouling critters attached, although these are not stinkers, just decorative.
Last but in no way least is the beautiful red-butterscotch colored mystery. This may be a macuna or dioclea, it is a undetermined find. Either way it is one of the rarest and a big favorite for me. For now its my butterscotch beauty with sea purse tendencies.
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