Plant materials growing through beads. I love this stuff!

This one was posted by the late Howard Opper:

Posted by: homj
02/01/2009, 13:53:07

"....and here's another example of a rare annular, not because of its color, rather because of its context. We found this bead in 1987 in a millet field some 40 kilometers north of Dakar, Senegal. The stem of a millet plant grew in just the right place to pass through the hole of this old annular bead!"

Both sweet and tender...

Common name: "String of Pearls, String of Beads"

http://www.plantsrescue.com/tag/string-of-pearls/

Then, back to the Eternal Question: What is actually a BEAD?
BCN Forum Archives, if I rightly remember, are a trove of answers to that.
As well as Google>Images pages, inspiring but somehow biased: I am posting this interesting example.

I have a liking for Chinese Ho-Ho boys, and I even own a small collection of them.
Beads all of them, no doubt, as North/South perforations prove.

From the dumpsite of beads, buttons and tiles in Briare, I picked up this one.