"MrBlueSkye" wrote in message
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Hi does anyone recognize this seed I found it laying on the top of my
garden
soil this morning. It is possible that it has been there for sometime, or
that it has arrived recently. The freezing weather and fact that I have
nothing in my garden that would produce a seed of this size leaves me
puzzled as to what it is, where it has come from

A bird or a mammal squirrel etc could well have found it or dug it
up somehere else.

Whether its a seed or not is questionable IMO.

To me the roots most resemble the sort of rooots which develop from
the discarded rootplate, sliced off the bottom of an onion or a
leek. If it wasn't for the size and ither things, I'd say this was
the discarded part of some vegetable or fruit which had been
left in a compost heap somewhere where it had rooted and been
dragged out by small mammal etc.

However picture 4 is strongly suggestive of something which had
been attached by a stem - a fruit or berry etc rather than something
which grows directly in the ground, which means it shouldn't produce
roots.

I stand to be corrected, but the distribution and quantity of the roots
from the body of the object, doesn't look very seed like to me.


michael adams

It might be worthwhile adding that viewers should click on where it
says [Jan 04 5 pictures] and not [Alien seed 0 picture ] below.










and of course how it has
managed to root in the freezing temperatures of the last month or so. At
it's longest points it is 30mm long and 20mm wide, and quite hard to the
touch. (I have of course potted it up)
MBS


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