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Adam and I just got back from our trip to Cairns, during which time we had a daytrip up to the Daintree Rainforest and then up to Cape Tribulation. On the way we spotted these, neither of us have seen them before.

Any ideas?

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It's an ocean.

Edit: Searching through databases, nothing yet.

So helpful joe!

I'll post another pic in a bit that shows a cu of the green (guessing raw) one and the striped one and what the innards look like.

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Lucky you Cairns is a fantastic place how much diving did you get done? Now you are getting to what Aust is all about.

Send that photo to the Cairns Botanical Gardens. I took a lot of photos up there and they identified them all. There was that many I sent up a CD.

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We missed the botanical gardens! I'm not sure I remember seeing anything about them in the books.

We got a good bit of diving in. I got 3 in, adam had 2 and lots of snorkeling. Next time we go hopefully adam will be certified and we can do a liveaboard rather than the touristy type of diving.

Considering Cape Tribulation was where Capt. Cook did his repairs I'm surprised that there wasn't more info on the historical importance of it.

Keith, I just might have to send them lots of pics. Adams very helpful when it comes to giving me an id on something. Usually its a "tree" or "flower"


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The Botanical gardens is not advertised I had to ask a taxi driver if there was one its only a few minutes out of town.

How is the Java fern going?

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Looks like somesort of relative to the cotton family.

looks like fruit to me

Green ones look a bit like chocolate pudding fruit, but um, they don't usually come stuffed with seeds and fluff. And I think they are a bit smaller. I'd email the botanical gardens, sometimes they'll do quick IDs for free

Looks pretty cool though, I like the way it de-shells itself!

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Looks like the fruit of a native kapok tree

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Late yesterday I remembered the Common name which is Kapok it also has several other common names. Old camel drivers used it to pack the saddle packs.

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Ive also heard that people used it as tinder for their fire, so maybe that's why the camel drivers packed them in their bags. Or, it could also be like insulation for the cold...Neat tree, neat fruit, neat pics!

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Keith, The javas going good, starting to send out its new leaves. With trips over the past few weeks I havent been able to attend to it closely. Just proves what a great tough little plant it is!

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