HYB:Mystery Seed Pods

This morning while out watering my ICU bed, the one with slow or pesky growers 
that must be constantly monitored else they perish, I found two strange-
looking seed pods on top of the bed covers (mulch).

Both were side by side, one having been chewed on and the other having a root
extending from the unopened pod.  (In all my seed planting experience I have never 
seen a root come from an unopened pod).   The pods look like fresh green olives.  
There is no seam and are very dark green yet appear to be ripe, hence the root. 
The pods were not attached to any stem or foliage or anything.   There are mainly 
beardless in this bed along with a few other plants, and this seed pod looks like 
none I have harvested before.  I checked the Marshmallow and the hymenocallis, 
which are nearby, and their developing pods are totally unlike the mystery pods.  
Since one pod had the root, I planted both in a pot and have watered them and set 
the pot in the shade.  My pseudacorus have all been stripped of pods,  and none 
were shaped like these, so I can rule them out.  All around me my neighbors are 
week-enders who mainly have low-maintenance shrubs, so I don't think a critter 
brought two pods from afar and left them for me to find.  Anybody have an idea of 
the type of seed pod this is?.  

Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8


 

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