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Sri Lanka What plants?
Posted: Wed April 29, 2009 02:51 PM UTC
Anyone know the name of the plants that are in every room in hotels near the beach there? They are large seeds planted half covered in a shallow dish of soil and sand and the plant grows from the top of the plant. The seeds drop off the trees in all the gardens there.
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Sri Lanka Re: What plants?
Posted: Wed April 29, 2009 03:15 PM UTC
Coconuts maybe?

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Sri Lanka Re: What plants?
Posted: Wed April 29, 2009 04:13 PM UTC
No, not that big a seed

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Sri Lanka Re: What plants?
Posted: Thu April 30, 2009 11:03 AM UTC
Hi,

Does the fruit look like this?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gogo159/1081447595/

Then it's called “Vetakeiya” in Sinhala and belongs to the Screw-Pine family of 800 trees and shrubs. It's growing on many beaches in Sri Lanka.

http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Pand_odo.html

Hans
in sunny, hot and muggy Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka Re: What plants?
Posted: Mon May 4, 2009 08:04 AM UTC
It is called Mudilla (Barringtonia asiatica). I have the seed on my table right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barringtonia_asiatica
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/plants/sea_poison.htm
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/051120/plus/6.html

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