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Margaretologist 15(1) Issue 33 2002

Super Plant Beads

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Cleanest. Sapinda saponaria; soapberry

Most versatile. Kukui; Aleurites moluccana.

Most Traveled. Sea bean aka
Sea hamburger Mucuna urens.

Sea heart; Entada gigatas.
Diameter 1.7 inches or 4.3 cm.

Most Misidentified Leucaena sp.

Most carved. Tagua;
Phytelephas macrocarpa

Daum nut, Hyphaene thebaica

Buri, Coryphia elata.
Dyed; one not finished.

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