Subject: A challenging plant question:

From: Dan Century <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 16:54:18 -0700

Hi,
My friends went hiking along the Hudson river in New York and they found 
these mean looking seed pods.  They are black/gray in color, they have 
four thorns, one on each corner and they are about 2.5cm X 1.8cm X 1.8cm. 
They look like something out of Aliens or Star Trek.  I'm going to attach 
a picture of them to this post and I put the picture on my website at
http://www.castle.net/~dcentury/seedpod.gif

Does anyone know what plant they come from? Please tell me: 
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From: "Raydon Eiland Alexander" <[email-masked]>
Date: 29 Jul 1996 16:16:47 GMT

Dan Century <[email-masked]> wrote in article
<[email-masked]>...

> Does anyone know what plant they come from? Please tell me: 

My guess is that they are from the Witch-hazel family (Hamamelidaceae),
perhaps Hamamelis japonica or H. virginiana.

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From: Don Martinson <[email-masked]>
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:56:12 GMT

The size described here is MUCH to large for  Hamamelis .

Don Martinson
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