I'm rather with Ruth have you tried holding a magnet over it as it looks like iron working waste? Kath
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> On 4 Jul 2017, at 12:36, Pelling, Ruth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I wonder if it is not a seed at all. Could it be a mineral/metallic object? If you have several I would to break one with your finger nail.
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> Best wishes
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> Ruth
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> Subject: Re: Fw: Seed Id Help
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> Dear Abby,
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> with your picture it is very difficult. Fabaceae have often preserved hilum and Papaveraceae have a surface very characteristic.
> I don't know, may be you can try too with Chenopodiaceae. In France, there is Chenopodium rubrum which are small like your seed.
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> Caroline Schaal
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>> Le 03/07/2017 à 17:16, Buffington, Abby a écrit :
>> I am working on an assemblage from southern Arabia and I came across
>> the following seed (?). It is 0.25 mm sq. in size, generally ovoid in
>> cross-section shape with a small flat margin on the lateral side and
>> circular on the ventral/dorsal ends. I thought perhaps wild Fabaceae
>> or Papaveracaeae but none of the examples in my reference material match.
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