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Mystery Seed of the Week: Seed Identification Resources

August 11, 2015 / Roberta / 0 Comments

Â I’m afraid I don’t have any mystery seeds in the queue this week.

If you’d like to polish your seed identification skills while you wait, try some of these online seed identification resources:

The University of Kentucky has seed identification information and quizzes that use common names. They are both educational and entertaining.

If you know your plants by their scientific names, you might find these quizzes at Ohio State University interesting:

Check out this free .pdf 4-H seed identification fact sheet – it is very well done.

Finally, if you are a serious student of seed identification, try the USDA-ARS guide to seeds and fruit by plant family.

Enjoy!

Do you have any seed identification resources to suggest?

August 4, 2015 / Roberta / 0 Comments

Â These seeds come from a plant that is rarely grown from seed,

(Credit for the public domain photograph will be given in the answer when it is posted.)

Do you recognize what kind of plant these seeds are from? If you choose to, please leave a comment with your ideas.

Mystery Seed answers and new Mystery Seeds are posted on Tuesdays.

Edit:Â The answer is now posted.

July 28, 2015 / Roberta / 1 Comment

Â Our mystery seeds this week are hard to forget.

They are shiny and roughly triangular.

They are also fairly small (the white object is a grain of rice added for scale.)

Do you recognize what plant these seeds are from? If you choose to, please leave a comment with your ideas.

Mystery Seed answers and new Mystery Seeds are posted on Tuesdays.

The answer is now posted.