Fwd: Biggest seed in dicots, back

[Robin Leech]

But Dan, you don't tell us, the uninformed, how big the seeds are.
Robin
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From: "Daniel Janzen" <djanzen at SAS.UPENN.EDU>
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Subject: Fwd: Biggest seed in dicots, back


> Mora excelsa, in the Fabaceae, a Central American tree (and probably
> elsewhere in the neotropics) is probably the record-holder.  It is
> water-dispersed, and at least on the southern Pacific coast of Costa
> Rica, grows along the inner margins of mangrove swamps - the seeds
> get there (and out of there) during exceptionally high tides).  Dan
> Janzen
>
>
>>Date:         Sun, 24 Apr 2005 14:04:08 +0900
>>Reply-To: Hidenobu Funakoshi <alpinist at BLUE.PLALA.OR.JP>
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>>From: Hidenobu Funakoshi <alpinist at BLUE.PLALA.OR.JP>
>>Subject:      Biggest seed in dicots
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>>Hi Taxacomers,
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>>I wonder if someone out there let me know what is the
>>biggest seed in dicots. Some sources said it must be
>>Eusideroxylon zwageri  of Lauraceae, but I want to make
>>it sure. Thanks in anticipation.
>>
>>regards,
>>H.Funakoshi
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