Plants That Produce Unusual, Distinctive Seed Pods

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Nightsong

Water lilly seed pods are neat. When upside down, the bottom looks to me like a Fairy's dancing skirt. The top has little impressions in them that sometime have the round seeds in them. I have seen Okcra pods painted to look like angels or Santa Clause with the tapering paint painted to look like his beard

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DeBushe

Love-in-a-mist or Nigella. It produced really weird pods. Caution, it is very invasive. The seeds wind up every where.

By Anne Paola (Guest Post)

Thank you to all who took the time to respond. I got at least 5 new ideas for my friend.

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Shosha

Money plants, chinese lanterns, teasels, milkweed, Althea, and yucca off the top of my head!

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thriftmeg

Money plants produce disks that hold the seeds and go translucent when dried.

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perfume and powder

How about cotton plants? They are pretty with or without the cotton. Remove the cotton and it looks like a 5-point star. By the way, the ridges on okra turn razor sharp when it dries. Handle carefully.

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Beth - MA

Chinese Lanterns are awesome, but here in zone 5, they can be invasive. Echinacea has neat cones after it dies for the winter. Okra is pretty dried- I've even seen it painted gold or silver for arrangements. Honesty, or Money Plant, has pretty silver coin-shaped seeds. Those are a few I can think of right now. Hope it gets you started!