Green bean pods in the tree.
Bean pods dry and burst open, exposing the red beans inside
Jewel like. Smooth.
Perfect for crafts. ***
Note: As several of you have enquired about whether the madhoshi is edible, just wanted to add here that they are most definitely not. When they turn red, they are hard, like a dried bean, and toxic.
Oh, and Em says I forgot to give her credit for her artwork, so please note that the piece above was created by my talented little girl :)
16 comments:
those bean pods are amazing...
I've never seen anything like them before !
There's a tree right across the street from where I work that produces pods like this...I'm going to try and photograph it at lunch so I can compare. I've never looked at what's inside the pods...but I call it The Bean Tree!
oh what artists can do with natural resources~very unusual berries/pods...pretty in a rusitic way!
They look like jelly beans, are they edible?
I think I saw a tree like that in the past but I didn't know what the inside of the beans was like. Cool! I like the house in the last picture.
Oh I am in love with that craft!!
Wow! These are so cool and what a great idea for crafts. Sorry I haven't been here for so long, I'm so behind on my blog reading and now trying to catch up. It's great to get here finally and see what you've been up to :)
I love the transition from source to final form. Great shots!
beautiful life cycle of a tree.
It looks like a fancy dessert - isn't nature amazing?
That madhoshi is beautiful...can you eat them? What do they taste like? And I love the "before & after" shots...such a sweet art work! Happy Days :o)
What an amazing tree. I loved all these glipses. And, I really loved the view of that happy bit of crafting.
Beautiful shots...A new tree for me and I love how you incorporated it into crafts! Love that red color...
I love learning more about your flora, so beautiful. And what a cool idea for crafting! And your kids on the post above are so cute :)
PS I just realized I wasn't a follower on here, so now I am! :)
It is indeed the same kind of tree right here in Western Ma. I couldn't get any photos of the leaves because the branches were so far above my head, but they're definitely the same distinctive shape.
The red seeds look like red-hots, don't they?
I have just discovered your website. Hope to visit it again and again in my quest for herbs that cures cancer. We had this tree in our garden in our small days but it was later cut down since it was too huge and did not seem to serve any useful purpose other than for weighing dried herbs for various medicines by Auyrveda practitioners. You know one side of the scale the herbs and on the other, the beans depending on how much was needed for that particular concoction. Thank you for the pictures which took me years back.
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