Autumn Ramble 2, Fruit

Every stage and feature in the life of a plant is of course important to its wellbeing. Fruit get particular attention from the animal world, including humans, because we become partners in some species' efforts to reproduce and increase themselves. We become enlisted as seed dispersers. Sometimes we creatures collect edible seeds intent on eating them, and its only the chance scattering of remnants that helps the plant proliferate.  In other cases plants develop colorful, tasty, nourishing packages around their seeds precisely so they might be eaten, excreted, and germinated on new ground. These processes have taken root in our aesthetic  sensibilities, to the delight of photographers.

Winterberry

 

 

 

 

Porcelain berry

 

 

 

 

Green alder

 

 

 

 

Virginia rose

 

 

 

 

Cat brier

 

 

 

 

Cedar waxwing and Morrow's honeysuckle

 

 

 

 

White fir

 

 

 

 

Black chokeberry

 

 

 

 

Privet and Eastern red cedar

 

 

 

 

European spindle tree

 

 

 

 

Grape

 

 

 

 

Shagbark hickory

 

 

 

 

Red squirrel