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| The popular pili |
It has been quite a while since I posted seed pictures in the site as I have not been fortunate to find some the last few months. But last week I found 2 interesting species on the Kanawan trail which I was fortunate to collect seeds of. Both seem to be closely related to Canarium ovatum or what they call the pili nut. The species were not confirmed by Uly but he is suspecting that they belong to the pili's botanic family, Burseraceae.
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| Seed no. 1 from Kanawan |
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| An inch long |
The first seeds, or should I say nuts, we encountered barely on the walkway leading to the Kanawan hanging bridge. They were all scattered on the trail and I did not even see the tree where it came from. Seed has a woody cover and 3-sided like the pili nut. It is smaller, just over an inch long, but has prominent lateral segmentations. The Kanawan kids say that the locals string this and use it as a necklace, which is hard to believe as they may make a pretty nice natural bead for jewelry making. We also found some fruit with the fleshy part. It smells like a pili fruit.
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| Seed no. 2 |
The second seed is confirmed by Uly as a Canarium but is not sure which species. The fruiting pattern is similar to pagsahingan or Canarium asperum but the fruits are much smaller than the ones I saw on a pagsahingan specimen in the Visayas. Fleshy part smells again like the pili and seeds are also 3 sided. But the size is interestingly much much smaller.
2 comments:
What about Canarium luzonicum? I wonder if that pagsahingan is the same as what we call palsahingin, the source of resin we call Manila elemi!
Did not see any on the trail. But Basiad is common towards Quezon.
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