This display certainly caught TPP's eye, and next hopefully some migratory birds eyes' too. This is a nice illustration of a flower at the stage of seed dispersal, i.e., a fruit. The actual fruit is rather cone-like and composed of a number of little follicles (like milkweed pods) that peel open exposing a pair of dangling seeds. The seeds have a shiny dark brown to black seed coat. But you don't see it here because the seeds are covered with a bright red-orange fleshy aril, which has a high lipid content to nourish those migrating birds. This is Magnolia virginiana in case you didn't recognize the flower at this stage.
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