Starnut Palm Seed
Astrocaryum species
A hard brown nut with three eyes arranged like a face, sometimes called a monkey-face seed.
- Typical size
- 1–2 in
- How often it turns up
- Uncommon
- Collecting
- Usually legal to collect
- Handling
- Safe to handle
Drift seeds are free to collect.
How to tell it apart
- Three round pores in a triangle
- Rough, fibrous brown surface
- Very hard, roughly spherical
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