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Javan cucumber

Alsomitra macrocarpa

Photo by Dan Doucette
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

about 6" long, translucent wings, seed in center

Habitat:

rainforest

Notes:

spotted these seeds flying through the air coming a vine growing up a towering Dipterocarp. they can land up to 1.25miles (2km) from their parent tree

Species ID Suggestions

Javan cucumber

Alsomitra macrocarpa

Comments (3)

Thanks craig for the proper ID! Not sure how you came to this old spotting but I appreciate it. I was way off on the ID but it was just a guess.
I saw some documentary (Attenburough, I think) that filmed these flying through the air. Simply amazing.

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