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  2. Abrus precatorius - Wikipedia

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    The plant is best known for its seeds, which are used as beads and in percussion instruments, and which are toxic because of the presence of abrin. Ingestion of a single seed, well chewed, can be fatal to both adults and children. [2] The plant is native to Asia and Australia. [1] It has a tendency to become weedy and invasive where it has been ...

  3. Adenanthera pavonina - Wikipedia

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    This tree is useful for nitrogen fixation, and it is often cultivated for forage, as an ornamental garden plant or urban tree, and as a medicinal plant. For example, the young leaves can be cooked and eaten. The raw seeds are toxic, but may be eaten when cooked. [6] In Singapore, the species forms part of the diet of local Raffles' banded ...

  4. Seed bead - Wikipedia

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    Two principal techniques are used to produce seed beads: the wound method and the drawn method. The wound method is the more-traditional technique, is more time-consuming, and is no longer used in modern bead production: in this technique, a chunk of glass known in glassmaking as a gather and composed mainly of silica is heated on an iron bar until molten.

  5. Category:Decorative fruits and seeds - Wikipedia

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    This category collects plants whose fruits or seeds are used for decoration. This often includes pods, cones and nuts of large proportions and/or extravagant shape. Many drift seeds are used in this fashion by seaside communities. Also, many seeds of ovoid and round shapes, often with complex surfaces, are used for making prayer beads.

  6. Seed - Wikipedia

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    Many seeds have been used as beads in necklaces and rosaries including Job's tears, Chinaberry, rosary pea, and castor bean. However, the latter three are also poisonous. Other seed uses include: Seeds once used as weights for balances. Seeds used as toys by children, such as for the game Conkers. Resin from Clusia rosea seeds used to caulk ...

  7. Melia azedarach - Wikipedia

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    The hard seeds of the plant could also be used in art and crafts, such as making beads for rosaries. It has naturalized in parts of Australia and in New Zealand, but it is classed as 'weed', [23] since it has the ability to colonise an area (with bird dropped seed) if left unchecked. [16]

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  9. Ziziphus budhensis - Wikipedia

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    The seeds are used as beads to make malas (rosaries), known as Bodhichitta malas, [2] Buddha chitta mala, or Bodhi seed malas, used in Tibetan Buddhist worship. These are highly valued with a mala of 108 beads costing up to 80 thousand Nepalese Rupees. However the price of the mala varies according to the diameter and the face of the seed.

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