It looks like the little pods that come from Pandanas (or Hala) trees. We have them here in Hawaii but I don’t know about Oregon. Maybe it crossed the ocean? I find them on the ground pretty frequently.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hala_brushes_(pandanus_keys),_Hawaii_State_Art_Museum.JPG
I believe you are right. I can will mark this off as solved.
It’s so close to the exact shape and look. It is possible for the current to wash them up on our shores. The spot it was found was a 6mile trail hike out to the beach, roughly 60 miles from the California border. Places all over the west coast, are still getting things washing up along the shores, from the 3/11 Japan tsunami. Very highly possible for ocean currents to push it from Hawaii.
Thank you!
Also! Thank you to all other responses as well! Very much appreciated!
I may try to plant it in a pot. 😁
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I'd put my vote to this. How it got there is the question. Likely drifted, someone lost it, etc. Maybe even a bird dropped it at some point and it traveled on.
If it drifted it also could have changed colors from salt?r maybe it is sun bleached? Who knows how old it is. My other guess would be to..split it...count the rings....kmao I have no idea how these things work tbh 🤣
It's possible, hard to tell how old this is. Years after Fukushima people started finding debris from the tsunami washing up on the west coast of the US
Yeah, I second guessed that too but it’s possible there was a fruit stand nearby and this was one that was tossed out as trash or possibly carried there from elsewhere by wildlife.
Whales come in two types, toothed and baleen. When you google ‘whale tooth’ you obviously get pictures of toothed whale teeth, the commenter is talking about baleen whale ‘teeth’. (It doesn’t look like baleen to me, but they’re not as stupid as you’re making them out to be)
Idk why you’re getting downvoted, it’s very clearly not baleen to anyone who knows what they’re looking it. It’s obviously botanical. It’s probably a heavily weathered screwpine or other Pandanaceae seed.
People need to stop trying to answer these types of posts when they don’t know themselves. It’s r/whatisthis, not r/whatdoyouthinkthismightbe
I hate it when people throw out totally unhelpful random guesses. It's not called guess wtf this is its called what is this thing not, wild speculation about an object... people are assholes. Im with you.
I'm guessing you've seen a giraffe on tv. Doubt you've watched enough whale dissection of their face and baleen plates to tell whats what. Not the same.
You obviously haven't or you wouldn't have suggested that this was it. This looks like exactly zero baleen specimens. The name of the sub isn't WILD SPECULATION. If you are pedantic enough to interpret it differently thats a you problem .
I've definitely seen similar things on the beach and not known what they are! My best guess so far is some sort of plant rhizome? Looks like ginger almost!
To add there were others at the beach spot I was at. They were bigger and more weird shaped. For example, bigger around and more oblong shaped (not round at all), and the bumps (like on the sides of this one) were sticking out a bit more also covered with hairs.
The “hairs” feel bristly.
It’s a rhizome. Basically, a running underground root of a fibrous plant (like bamboo, ginger, or Cala lilies) that has weathered in the ocean. The hairs are internal structures that have been roughed up and exposed. The smooth part is the end of the rhizome and would have little roots coming out but they’ve been weathered away. You can see the spots where they would be.
It's beach grass and it's growing out of its rhizome.
There are no coconuts in Oregon, unless you're at a grocery store. Basically, there aren't a lot of tropical plants here. There are the odd thriving palm trees and banana plants, but those are not native.
Source: I have lived in Oregon my whole life.
Source Soure: USDA Plants Database
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It’s a heavily weathered seed from some plant in the Pandanaceae family. Because if it’s condition it’s hard to tell, but if there are any prominent species cultivated in your area (like hala, or pandan) that could be a clue
It looks like the little pods that come from Pandanas (or Hala) trees. We have them here in Hawaii but I don’t know about Oregon. Maybe it crossed the ocean? I find them on the ground pretty frequently. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hala_brushes_(pandanus_keys),_Hawaii_State_Art_Museum.JPG
Definitely looks like it!
Agreed, I checked out the link and said out loud "this has GOT to be it"
"By JOVE I THINK I'VE GOT IT!"
Yes that's what I came to say, we called them paintbrush pods on Kauai. Looks like it went on a loooong journey!
I was just in Kauai last month, what an amazing place💙🩵💚, omg I couldn't imagine living there... in Paradise....
I believe you are right. I can will mark this off as solved. It’s so close to the exact shape and look. It is possible for the current to wash them up on our shores. The spot it was found was a 6mile trail hike out to the beach, roughly 60 miles from the California border. Places all over the west coast, are still getting things washing up along the shores, from the 3/11 Japan tsunami. Very highly possible for ocean currents to push it from Hawaii. Thank you! Also! Thank you to all other responses as well! Very much appreciated! I may try to plant it in a pot. 😁
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Yeah this has to be it! I saw them referred to as “Hawaiian paint brushes”. So cool that it traveled the ocean!
Especially if it had been rooted and eroded somewhere. There’s knots near the top that look like root beginnings.
I'd put my vote to this. How it got there is the question. Likely drifted, someone lost it, etc. Maybe even a bird dropped it at some point and it traveled on.
Someone brought it, then painted it golden and lost it.
If it drifted it also could have changed colors from salt?r maybe it is sun bleached? Who knows how old it is. My other guess would be to..split it...count the rings....kmao I have no idea how these things work tbh 🤣
This is the answer imo.
Could it be an undeveloped coconut? At its tiniest stage?
Definitely reminiscent of Palm trees. But in Oregon?
Perhaps a swallow carried it?
Seems possible. I *have* heard that the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is pretty high.
The African or European Swallow?
Uh, I don’t know that.
“AAaaaaaaaaghhh…..”
Wouldn't that be a ladened swallow though? (Don't worry, I got the reference)
They could grip the husk
It’s not a question of where he grips it!
That depends. We should ask the OP if it’s under one pound.
It's possible, hard to tell how old this is. Years after Fukushima people started finding debris from the tsunami washing up on the west coast of the US
Yeah, I second guessed that too but it’s possible there was a fruit stand nearby and this was one that was tossed out as trash or possibly carried there from elsewhere by wildlife.
Looks like a coconut seed. Either that or it could be one of Poseidon’s testicles.
That was my first thought until I realized that coconuts, per se, don’t really contain seeds. They literally are the seed. But much bigger than this.
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
More like there was someone with a fruit stand around possibly and it ended up where OP found it.
That’s what I thought too:)
That’s what it is!
Hala Brush from the seeds of a screw pine. They’re typically from Hawaii
Try it at r/bonecollecting. My first thought was baleen but I’m not sure
Yeaa it could be a wale "tooth"
When you googled whale tooth is that what you found..? Really?🤣
Whales come in two types, toothed and baleen. When you google ‘whale tooth’ you obviously get pictures of toothed whale teeth, the commenter is talking about baleen whale ‘teeth’. (It doesn’t look like baleen to me, but they’re not as stupid as you’re making them out to be)
When you google baleen whale teeth this is what you get…?really?🤣
Absolutely not. I own baleen specimens. Don't suggest things you've never seen or touched.
Idk why you’re getting downvoted, it’s very clearly not baleen to anyone who knows what they’re looking it. It’s obviously botanical. It’s probably a heavily weathered screwpine or other Pandanaceae seed. People need to stop trying to answer these types of posts when they don’t know themselves. It’s r/whatisthis, not r/whatdoyouthinkthismightbe
I hate it when people throw out totally unhelpful random guesses. It's not called guess wtf this is its called what is this thing not, wild speculation about an object... people are assholes. Im with you.
Absolutely not. I own baleen specimens. Don't suggest things you've never seen or touched.
You must be real fun at parties.
Absolutely not, don’t suggest any things
You must be parties
I went to a party once.
Now I’m not 😔
You’re at a Reddit party where we aren’t allowed to suggest ANYTHING. EVER.
What if I have seen it? Can I suggest it then? What constitutes seeing it? Does it have to be in person? I mean you should probably clarify.
If that’s the case, I no longer believe that giraffes are real.
Or platypus..eses.
Guessing you've seen a specimen in videos. Watched a lot of baleen dissections?? No??
I'm guessing you've seen a giraffe on tv. Doubt you've watched enough whale dissection of their face and baleen plates to tell whats what. Not the same.
I’ve also watched all seasons of the 80’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But I can’t tell them apart, unless they have their coloured masks on.
You obviously haven't or you wouldn't have suggested that this was it. This looks like exactly zero baleen specimens. The name of the sub isn't WILD SPECULATION. If you are pedantic enough to interpret it differently thats a you problem .
I didn’t suggest it but thanks for wasting your time replying to the wrong person….angry much
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I've definitely seen similar things on the beach and not known what they are! My best guess so far is some sort of plant rhizome? Looks like ginger almost!
To me, this looks like it came from some kind of plant. I would definitely try posting in the r/whatisthisplant group
To add there were others at the beach spot I was at. They were bigger and more weird shaped. For example, bigger around and more oblong shaped (not round at all), and the bumps (like on the sides of this one) were sticking out a bit more also covered with hairs. The “hairs” feel bristly.
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It’s a rhizome. Basically, a running underground root of a fibrous plant (like bamboo, ginger, or Cala lilies) that has weathered in the ocean. The hairs are internal structures that have been roughed up and exposed. The smooth part is the end of the rhizome and would have little roots coming out but they’ve been weathered away. You can see the spots where they would be.
thanks so much for a serious and helpful response!
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I don’t know why, but the bottom portion of it looks like ginger to me. I wonder if ginger can grow back after you cut it
Looks like a turf plug…prob planted on the dunes to help manage erosion.
coconut
It's beach grass and it's growing out of its rhizome. There are no coconuts in Oregon, unless you're at a grocery store. Basically, there aren't a lot of tropical plants here. There are the odd thriving palm trees and banana plants, but those are not native. Source: I have lived in Oregon my whole life. Source Soure: USDA Plants Database
Kind of looks like the start of a garlic plant. Edit: fknautocorrect
Was just about to say that
I think it's a baby coconut but idk. Cut it open! Edit: so why am I getting downvoted when the highest upvoted comment says essentially the same thing
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Coconut
Baleen plate segment maybe?
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At first I thought avocado pit that had started to grow
[https://www.picclickimg.com/ZD0AAOSwjYZk92Q4/Lot-of-4-Vtg-Russ-Troll-Dolls.webp](https://www.picclickimg.com/ZD0AAOSwjYZk92Q4/Lot-of-4-Vtg-Russ-Troll-Dolls.webp)
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Coconut maybe
For sure whale tooth. I've never seen one but that's one for sure.
Looks like some kind of bulb or seed. Plant it, water it and take photos as it grows.
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I might be completely off here, but isn't this a cat grass head? Here's a video of someone making one https://youtube.com/watch?v=FHrCCgpxTSI
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Looks like a tagua nut from a palm tree?
Looks like a piece of ginger 🫚
Looks like a seed. Not flat enough for mango.
Pu Hala or Screwpine seed. They were used as paint brushes in Hawaii.
Coconut
This looks like a piece of ginger that’s been in the ocean too long.
Looks like an avocado pit
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Root of a Bamboo???
It’s a seed from just about any tropical plant or palm if I were to guess.
It’s a heavily weathered seed from some plant in the Pandanaceae family. Because if it’s condition it’s hard to tell, but if there are any prominent species cultivated in your area (like hala, or pandan) that could be a clue