Description: A floating seed ball in the Colombian Amazon, and claimed to be edible. The species is found in tropical northern South America. Date: 8 January 2012, 00:59. Source: Naucleopsis ulei. Author: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada.
The spiny pod is known as Ua del Gato, the parent tree as Amargo. Native from Honduras to Ecuador. Photo from Bastimentos Island, northwestern Panama. In context at www.dixpix.ca/meso_america/Flora/rosales/index.html