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2. List of largest seeds - Wikipedia

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   It can reach about 30 centimetres (12 inches) long, and weigh up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds). The coco de mer, which produces a giant, dark brown seed, [4] has been protected by the government of the Seychelles because of its rarity [5] – the tree can grow up to 31 m (102 ft) tall, with leaves measuring 6 m (20 ft) long and 3.6 m (12 ft) wide.

3. Enterolobium cyclocarpum - Wikipedia

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   The seeds are not eaten by any animals currently native where the tree occurs, [7] rendering the plant an evolutionary anachronism: it has been suggested that guanacaste pods were among the foods exploited by certain species of Pleistocene megafauna that became extinct some 10,000 years ago (e.g. giant ground sloths, giant bison). [8]

4. Liquidambar - Wikipedia

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   Seed pods from Liquidambar tree They are all large, deciduous trees, 25–40 m (82–131 ft) tall, with palmately 3- to 7-lobed leaves arranged spirally on the stems and length of 12.5 to 20 centimetres (4.9 to 7.9 in), having a pleasant aroma when crushed.

5. Carob - Wikipedia

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   The pods take a full year to develop and ripen. When the sweet, ripe pods eventually fall to the ground, they are eaten by various mammals, such as swine, thereby dispersing the hard inner seed in the excrement. [citation needed] The seeds of the carob tree contain leucodelphinidin, a colourless flavanol precursor related to leucoanthocyanidins ...

6. Pentaclethra macroloba - Wikipedia

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   The pod has three to eight seeds, [3] more often four to six. [8] [9] The large and flat seeds [8] measure from 3.8 to 5 cm, exceptionally 6.1 cm, in length, and 2.5 to 3.5 cm, exceptionally 5.7 cm in width. The form is lens-like to spoon-shaped or deltoid, or ovoid to elliptical, and laterally flattened.

7. Which Trees Produce Spiky Round Balls? Here's How to ... - AOL

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   Jay Wilde . Trees with Spiky Seed Pods. If you've encountered some round, spiny balls under a tree or maybe still on the plant, and you're wondering what it could be, it's likely one of several ...