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Mystery pod
There are some real nuts out there these days — beginning with the acorns directly below.
I have also included images of other nuts and pods I have found of late.
The last image in the bunch is a mystery. My wife and I found it next to a running path in the woods in Ramsey.
Try to guess what these things are. For the answer, run your cursor over the image and a name should appear.
(I only know the fourth one because we just had one planted in our front yard. And yes, it is native.)
Please let me know what that last pod thing is if you have a good idea.
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Thanks much to Evelyn and everyone else who responded to this post — and who added helpful information besides.
Much appreciated. -
Those last ones are tulip tree pods. Fruit, actually – the seeds are long and almost pine-cone like. The pods dry out and fall apart into the little sections with the dried seeds that are lightweight and blow in the wind to scatter the seed. The ones in the picture haven’t matured and dried yet.
There’s a lot of these in the Dunkerhook area of the Saddle River County Park in the section along the river that runs northward towards the Duck Pond in Ridgewood. -
CORRECTION:
Quercus palustris
Silver Bell Tree: Halesia carolina -
Number One most likely Pin Oak, Quercus palystris!
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Last one definitely Tulip Tree seeds in a cluster.
More later! -
Those mystery “pods” don’t look like pods to me. I’m thinking still tightly-closed Tuliptree fruit. Just a guess.
Tom B.
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jim wright
Thanks much to Evelyn and everyone else who responded to this post — and who added helpful information besides.
Much appreciated.
Evelyn
Those last ones are tulip tree pods. Fruit, actually – the seeds are long and almost pine-cone like. The pods dry out and fall apart into the little sections with the dried seeds that are lightweight and blow in the wind to scatter the seed. The ones in the picture haven’t matured and dried yet.
There’s a lot of these in the Dunkerhook area of the Saddle River County Park in the section along the river that runs northward towards the Duck Pond in Ridgewood.
Deedee Burnside
CORRECTION:
Quercus palustris
Silver Bell Tree: Halesia carolina
Deedee Burnside
Number One most likely Pin Oak, Quercus palystris!
Deedee Burnside
Last one definitely Tulip Tree seeds in a cluster.
More later!
Tom Burr
Those mystery “pods” don’t look like pods to me. I’m thinking still tightly-closed Tuliptree fruit. Just a guess.
Tom B.