Seeds and odd carved bead necklace

This was a necklace. It is now sealed up tight in a plastic bag as I had the misfortune to look through a loupe at it .
But what are they? Where are they from? What is the meaning of life? ( sorry, scrap that last bit as it’s a bit off topic)
Tourist stuff brought back to get you put in Customs Jail for eternity or recognisable to anyone?
Thanks for looking ( although, take my word for it you may not want to look too closely)

 

I've seen those round carved nuts before, as the actress said to the bishop.

 

That was the only one I had an answer to.

The Chinese love nut carving. (and I mean that in the nicest possible sense)

@kyratango ?

 

Lol, that’s funny x

 

My British-Canadian professor was always using that line, sometimes reversed as appropriate (or inappropriate?). Right up there in colorful British witticisms as "sheep and Wellington boots" (if you don't know that one, don't ask me to explain it).

 

Are they carved Olive wood beads?

 

I think the answer is 42.......

 

Ooh they could well be. Thankyou

 

I know I had some similar, might have been a rosary, so might have been a buy from The Holy Land.

 

Yup, carved olive wood on the round ones.

 

The seed things look like they are the endocarps of the fruits of the Blue Marble tree, Elaeocarpus grandis.

https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/ww0901.htm

 

See, this is what reading all those books does!. Note to self...must read more so I can use the word endocarps more often .
Joking aside, that is great info @2manybooks, Thankyou

 

Do you think I’ve seen so many nuts in my life I became a nutsologist?

 

The nutsologist says @2manybooks nuts angelic are called Rudraksha and used in Indouist rosaries/malas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudraksha



Ksw’s seem differents wideyed:)......

 

There are apparently a variety of Elaeocarpus species with slightly different endocarps that have been used as beads. "In India the species most commonly used for prayer beads is E. ganitrus, also listed in some references as E. sphaericus. The endocarps are also known as "rudraksha beads." I think KSW's look like the spikier ones from the blue marble tree, but I might be wrong. Hard to tell from just photos.

 

You've known me long enough, so I guessed you'd be an expert on nuts by now.

I certainly didn't recognize rudraksha beads in KSW's nuts (respectfully).

 

They do look exactly like this

 

Careful now