A steady supply of seed is vital for forest restoration, so there are always seedlings to be planted out. Recently, three of us from the nursery team headed into the forest to collect bilakang seeds. As we headed out along the trail, our eyes didn’t stop scanning the forest floor – many seeds were ignored as we focussed on finding the bilakang seeds. There is an art to finding seeds of a particular type of tree – each has seeds of different shapes and colours, some are hard, some are soft and some with strange shapes. One type of seed is even shaped like flattish gravel - if we don’t really use our eyes, we can easily overlook that one. In that one trip we collected hundreds of seeds. On getting back to camp, we washed the seeds and put them in polybags for germination. A very tiring day, but fun!