Caryota urens seeds

[redant]

Do Caryota urens have 2 seeds in each fruit? Mine had flowered a while ago and now is drooping fruits about the size of a chestnut and each one seems to contain 2 seeds. I'm guessing thats what these are.

Edited May 18, 2014 by redant

[Kumar]

Most fruits from mine give one seed per fruit, some (1 in 7) have two and occasionally there are three though the third is usually misshapen / atrophied.

[redant]

  On 5/19/2014 at 9:38 AM, Kumar said:

Most fruits from mine give one seed per fruit, some (1 in 7) have two and occasionally there are three though the third is usually misshapen / atrophied.

this is what these look like, all seem to have 2 items in each. The last picture is the whole fruit.

Edited May 19, 2014 by redant

[Kumar]

They look fine and very healthy to me - you can slice the doubles vertically down the middle. The difference in percentage of doubles is probably a small one on account of different lineages, climate, etc. Your photos are exactly like the ones I cut open when I last cut and cleaned seed ... I think it was in 2011 when mailing seed to some folks on PT.