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| The resins in the fruit walls of this Costa Rican Acacia collinsii maturing fruit did not stop a bug from puncturing through into the seeds within, but when the proboscis was withdrawn, the hole filled with resin (that bubbled up onto the surface to hard into these hard balls of resin), thereby blocking secondary invasion by fungi and bacteria. | ||
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