Found on Sugar creek ARK and MO boarder

[edteach]

I have been looking in creeks and cut banks around Bella Vista with no luck. Today was very cold and on the MO border I found this group of about 7 eggs. I thought they were maybe goose eggs that had washed down stream. But after breaking one open it had like a fiber and some seeds. Maybe someone here knows what it is.

[Broken Arrow]

Any pics of the inside? Possibly pawpaw?? I feel like those may have rotted by now though..

[JoshinMO]

That's what I thought too when I first found one while trying to discover Pawpaw's.

[edteach]

I thought I did take a pic of the one I crushed. But I must not have. I took two of them. Washed them up and they look a lot like eggs but the one I did crush had seeds in it with a lot of stringy stuff. You can shake them and hear it rattle inside. Thick shell about 1/16 inch. They did not seem to be from any plant life around them.

[JoshinMO]

I don't know what They are called, but I have seen Them also I believe. Is that stuff inside like Cotton? They come off of Vines or small Tree's I think.

[Broken Arrow]

I can't place the name either but I know what you are talking about.

[Lindenmeier-Man]

They are alien eggs cover your face ! All this zombie apocalyptic downturn starts right there..

[Jethro355]

They are a type of gourd. We used to call them maypops when we were kids because they were green and soft-ish, and if you stomped them they would “pop”. They hardened as the season got late and became seed pods.

[Broken Arrow]

Jethro for the win! Good call man

[edteach]

Thanks for the Gourd idea that helped me find what they are. Ozark nest egg gourd

https://mountainlilyfarm.com/products/nest-egg-gourd-seeds-or-bird-egg-gourd-seeds-great-craft-gourds

[Jethro355]

Thanks for posting that. Brought back memories. My Gramma used to get them and use them for that, she’d leave one in a nest for the laying hens as a nest egg.