Nagalingam/Cannonball, seed pod

Great spotting!! Thanks for sharing!!

This is pretty! There is a mission, under local missions, that has seed pods. You may want to include your sighting on it.

The description says there is an unpleasant edible jelly - so do people eat these or only animals, or birds...?

Hope your garden is specious... This tree grows very well and its trunk is takes diameter upto 2-3 meters in 10-20 years.

Its usually called Cannonball tree... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couroupita_guianensis

Common name Cannonball tree, boskalebas, coco de mono, abricó de macaco, castanha de macaco, cuia de macaco, macacarecuia, sala tree, kanonenkugelbaum. Over view The leaves, up to 6" long, are simple with serrate margin; it flowers in racemes; the yellow, reddish and pink flowers are stunning fragrant. These are large 3" to 5" waxy aromatic smelling, pink and dark-red flowers, growing directly on the bark of the trunk (cauliflory). Pollination is done by bees and bats. The tree bears, also directly on the trunk and main branches, large globose woody fruits; they look like big rusty cannonballs hanging in clusters, like balls on a string. The fruit contains small seeds in a white, unpleasant smelling edible jelly, which are exposed when the upper half of the fruit goes off like a cover. The long dangling fruity branches give the tree an unkempt appearance. The hard shells are used to make containers and utensils.