Seed hunting at a nearby park

[Josue Diaz]

I went looking for seeds today at a park near my house. Lots of cool palms out there - a few breahea species, some livistonas, a few jubaea and of course washingtonia and phoenix. Unfortunately, it looks like most of the seed goes to feed to local squirrel population, but I did manage to gather a few seeds below two livistona (decora, and an unknown species to me).

The unknown livistona 

livistona decora

These are the seeds I found below the unknown livistona 

But most of the seed have obviously been past the paws of the squirrels here

Including the meaty coquitos from the jubaea 

Finally, one of a group of 4 jubaeas 

[Looking Glass]

Around here all the palms seed profusely.  Squirrels eat them during the day, but it’s black rats in the trees at night.  The “night squirrels” are fat and happy around here, more numerous but much more stealthy.