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This Costa Rican upper beach cover of Canavalia maritima could well have come from seeds from Eniwetok Atoll, and vice versa. Just like a coconut the ocean is a sheet of floating beach bean seeds, all waiting to be cast up on the upper beach by a storm tide.
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