Re: Mystery Canaries...
- Subject: Re: Mystery Canaries...
- From: G* W*
- Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 15:27:21 +0000
Tim Longville wrote:
>
> The mystery deepens.... Gordon's description - viz,
>
> > if it is Araujia serifera the pod looks like a very large(four to six
> inches long) almond fruit and is filled with a silky mass of fibres, as well
> as hundreds of small black seeds >
>
> - doesn't sound like what I have. The 'pod' was *very* shallow - almost no
> depth at all - , but quite wide and long (say 3" by 2") - ie, exactly like
> two almost flat sea-creature-shells fitted together - and inside were simply
> the seeds, no filling, and the seeds weren't small and black but, as I think
> I said originally, almost exactly like those of Cardiocrinum giganteum, viz,
> with a brown central 'kernel' and a surrounding thin transparent 'membrane,'
> floating for the purpose of.
>
> Does this put Hugo's jacaranda back in the frame?
>
> Tim
Yes!
By an amazing coincidence a friend returning from Australia gave me a
jacaranda pod last night as a bithday present. It does resemble the
shell of some kind of mollusc, almost flat and the seeds are flat, brown
with papery fringes.
--
Gordon Walker
France
