Seed pod identification - Ask Extension
Found this in my feont yard under pine trees. Not a pine cone. I am trying to identify it. I am not even sure if it is local. Can you help?
Thanks, D...
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Seed pod identification #824304
Asked April 03, 2023, 11:09 AM EDT
Found this in my feont yard under pine trees. Not a pine cone. I am trying to identify it. I am not even sure if it is local. Can you help?
Thanks, Dave
Frederick County Maryland
Expert Response
Hello Dave,
We don't recognize the pod as belonging to a local species or commonly-grown plant in our area, but it seems to resemble a baobab tree seed pod. These are sometimes used in floral arrangements or in dried wreaths, and the plant (a few related species, actually) are native to Africa and/or Australia. Perhaps a squirrel ran off with the pod, or it just fell off something discarded or which was being used as decoration in a nearby yard and blew around to the area where you found it.
Miri
We don't recognize the pod as belonging to a local species or commonly-grown plant in our area, but it seems to resemble a baobab tree seed pod. These are sometimes used in floral arrangements or in dried wreaths, and the plant (a few related species, actually) are native to Africa and/or Australia. Perhaps a squirrel ran off with the pod, or it just fell off something discarded or which was being used as decoration in a nearby yard and blew around to the area where you found it.
Miri
Dear Miri,
Thank you so much. Don't know how it got there. Funny. It didn't look like anything I could find locally also.
Thanks again,
Dave
You're welcome.
