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 79 P. saman fruits DHJanzen100843.jpg high resolution
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| Newly fallen ripe Pithecellobium saman fruits, each with raisin-like sweet tissues (and protein-rich as well) in their dry tough indehiscent fruit walls, and each containing 10-20 hard seeds. Here presented to a ground-bound herbivore, they wait in the hot sun. And then a tapir finds them. The seeds are small enough, to a large herbivore like a tapir (or cow or horse) such that substantial numbers may slip through the molar mill. | ||
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