Seed Pod

[sometime]

Can anyone identify this seed pod, it’s length is 80mm I have not seen any more in the area; we have had strong winds so it could have come far and wide.

No doubt it will turn out something very common. THANKS

[opalhort]

Since nobody has replied to your post for many days I took the liberty and posted your photo on a Horticultural list in the USA and today received this reply from a Mr. Robert Meyer who is a well known botanist in the US.

Your fruit is one section of a larger fruit of Pterocymbium tinctorium (Blanco) Merr., in the family Sterculiaceae (the same family as cacao). Its common name in Thailand is: po-khihaet

Assuming you read Thai, here are some great pictures of the plant:

http://board.trekkingthai.com/board/show.p...;topic_id=86851

and more information here:

http://www.cabicompendium.org/NamesLists/FC/Full/PTCYTI.htm

In the Phillippines, this tree was used for making wooden shoes. Perhaps it is used in construction in Thailand.

Bob in IL

opalhort