Sono Natural Specimens – 12 Types

Children will be drawn to 12 separately-bagged natural specimens. This set will help children develop classifying and observational skills. Latin names are included in the set.

Set includes:

• Lily Centers (soymida febrifuga) – Fruits that grow on the Indian Redwood (pod)
• Spiral Conch Shell (pugilina cochlidium) – A species of sea snail (shell)
• Butterfly Bark Slice (salacia chinensis linn) – Bark off a woody butterfly tree/shrub that is found in India (bark slice)
• Pear Pods (hydropera) – Varied pods from numerous plants (seed/pod)
• Lotus Seed Pods (nelumbium speciosum wild) – Distinctive dried seed heads of lotus plants (seed pod)
• Cinnamon Sticks (cinnamonum cassia) – An evergreen tree that provides aromatic bark that is used as a spice (bark)
• Angel Wings (oroxylum indicum) – The seed from inside seed pods on a tropical tree (seed)
• Grand Windmill (terminalia arjuna) – Fruit from the Arjun tree, sometimes used for medical purposes (dried fruit)
• Ata Fruit Slice (annona squamosa) – A fruit also known as a “sugar apple” (fruit)
• Ear White Seashell (melampus) – The shell of a type of snail/slug, usually found in Hawaii (shell)
• Pine Cone (pinus) – Small pine cone/seed from pine tree (cone/seed)
• Camel Foot (toddalia asiatica) – Fruit from a climbing South African orange tree, which tastes like an orange/lemon cross (dried fruit)