Drift beans or Sea beans
Description:
Category hierarchy: Plants | Plant Structures | Fruits, Nuts, & Seeds
Description: Ocean currents wash these sea beans or drift beans ashore on far-distant beaches. These specimens belong to (tentatively) genera Mucuna and Entada. Some of the beans are produced on vines in Costa Rica and other Central American countries. Others are produced by vines in Africa.
Capture device: Camera: Fujifilm Finepix S3100
Capture details: Lens: 6x optical zoom
Original date: 20071007
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Archaeplastida (plants)
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- Eudicots
- Superrosids
- Rosids
- Fabales
- Fabaceae (legumes)
- Mucuna (mucuna)
- Mucuna glabrialata
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