3/28/23

More seedpod talk

I’ll bet most of you have tuned out with all this pod talk.  Sorry.  But there is one more.  The tour organizer I spoke to this morning was holding in her hand (because she was snacking on “her favourite fruit”) the amazing pod below. It is referred to here as the Machete pod or guava here in Panama though of course it is NOT a guava as we know it. In Ecuador, it is called Guaba. Huge pods with pithy looking covering to the shiny black beans inside. You suck the “meat” off the bean and throw away the bean.


She said they sell for 25 cents at the market near her house, and she kindly gave us the one above to try.
  
Or in the market . . .

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Okay, okay, no more pod stories. 

I will leave you for now with this great bird Rob captured on camera this morning - the Southern Lapwing.


I forgot to attach the Gamboa houses. Here they are.



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Hansi, Sunday March 26, 2023 4:34 PM

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