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  • Medinilla speciosa, mature infructescence, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia

    Medinilla speciosa, mature infructescence, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia

  • Medinilla scortechinii, cauliflorous flowering, bright orange axes, flowers and berries, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia

    Medinilla scortechinii, cauliflorous flowering, bright orange axes, flowers and berries, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia

  • Medinilla sp., red inflorescence axis, white flowers and purple berries, Rondon ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Medinilla sp., red inflorescence axis, white flowers and purple berries, Rondon ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Medinilla venusta, infructescence, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

    Medinilla venusta, infructescence, Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

  • Medinilla erpetina, baccate bright red ripe fruits, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

    Medinilla erpetina, baccate bright red ripe fruits, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

  • Medinilla cf. mortonii, blue berries surrounded by white bracts, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

    Medinilla cf. mortonii, blue berries surrounded by white bracts, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

  • Medinilla cf. anisophylla, pinkish bracts surrounding maturing greenish white berries enclosed by concrescent calyx, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

    Medinilla cf. anisophylla, pinkish bracts surrounding maturing greenish white berries enclosed by concrescent calyx, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

  • Heliconia papuana, infructescence with bracts, decaying perianths and developing fruits, Madang, Papua New Guinea

    Heliconia papuana, infructescence with bracts, decaying perianths and developing fruits, Madang, Papua New Guinea

  • Heliconia papuana, infructescence with decaying perianths and developing fruits, Madang, Papua New Guinea

    Heliconia papuana, infructescence with decaying perianths and developing fruits, Madang, Papua New Guinea

  • Alpinia myriocratera, hanging banana like infructescence and banana like teared leaves, Kelimutu, Flores, Indonesia

    Alpinia myriocratera, hanging banana like infructescence and banana like teared leaves, Kelimutu, Flores, Indonesia

  • Alpinia monopleura, unusual apparently erratic sequence along flowering axis with almost open flowers at the top, then flower buds, mature fruits and young fruits downwards, Wara Barat, Palopo, South Sulawesi

    Alpinia monopleura, unusual apparently erratic sequence along flowering axis with almost open flowers at the top, then flower buds, mature fruits and young fruits downwards, Wara Barat, Palopo, South Sulawesi

  • Alpinia pulchra, branched flowering axes bearing side by side flower buds, flowers at anthesis and maturing fruits, Tenaru Falls, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

    Alpinia pulchra, branched flowering axes bearing side by side flower buds, flowers at anthesis and maturing fruits, Tenaru Falls, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

  • Pleuranthodium peekelii at forest edge with hanging bright orange infructescences, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

    Pleuranthodium peekelii at forest edge with hanging bright orange infructescences, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

  • Pleuranthodium peekelii, mature open bright orange capsule and black shiny seeds, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

    Pleuranthodium peekelii, mature open bright orange capsule and black shiny seeds, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

  • Riedelia cf geluensis, orange flowers and carmine maturing fleshy capsular fruits, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf geluensis, orange flowers and carmine maturing fleshy capsular fruits, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia cf geluensis, bright orange flowers and carmine maturing fleshy capsular fruits, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia cf geluensis, bright orange flowers and carmine maturing fleshy capsular fruits, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia sp., red fleshy capsules opening to expose the seeds embedded in orange pulp, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia sp., red fleshy capsules opening to expose the seeds embedded in orange pulp, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia sp., low epiphyte in fruit, Tari, 2000 m asl, Hela, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia sp., low epiphyte in fruit, Tari, 2000 m asl, Hela, Papua New Guinea

  • Riedelia sp., black capsular fruit opening to reveal the seeds embedded in red pulp, Tari, 2000 m asl, Hela, Papua New Guinea

    Riedelia sp., black capsular fruit opening to reveal the seeds embedded in red pulp, Tari, 2000 m asl, Hela, Papua New Guinea

  • Hedychium tenellum, open fleshy capsule with orange inner walls and black seeds embedded in bright red aril

    Hedychium tenellum, open fleshy capsule with orange inner walls and black seeds embedded in bright red aril

  • Calathea ornata, ripe infructescence, Candelaria Lodge, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

    Calathea ornata, ripe infructescence, Candelaria Lodge, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

  • Crinum natans, fruits maturing at the surface of the water, Kribi, Cameroun

    Crinum natans, fruits maturing at the surface of the water, Kribi, Cameroun

  • Crinum thaianum, big green seeds released from one of the brown capsular fruits, Kuraburi, Thailand

    Crinum thaianum, big green seeds released from one of the brown capsular fruits, Kuraburi, Thailand

  • Homonoia riparia in the Mekong river, fruiting defoliate branches during low water level, Jinghong city, Xishuangbanna, China

    Homonoia riparia in the Mekong river, fruiting defoliate branches during low water level, Jinghong city, Xishuangbanna, China

  • Homonoia riparia in the Mekong river, capsular tricoccous fruits, Jinghong city, Xishuangbanna, China

    Homonoia riparia in the Mekong river, capsular tricoccous fruits, Jinghong city, Xishuangbanna, China

  • Homonoia riparia in the Mekong river, capsular tricoccous hairy fruits, Jinghong city, Xishuangbanna, China

    Homonoia riparia in the Mekong river, capsular tricoccous hairy fruits, Jinghong city, Xishuangbanna, China

  • Goniothalamus sp., cauliflory, tiny orange flower at the lower left and huge mericarps, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

    Goniothalamus sp., cauliflory, tiny orange flower at the lower left and huge mericarps, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

  • Goniothalamus sp., mericarps from a single flower, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

    Goniothalamus sp., mericarps from a single flower, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

  • Goniothalamus sp., old mericarps peduncle, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

    Goniothalamus sp., old mericarps peduncle, Imbu Rano, Kolombangara, Solomon Islands

  • Johannesteijsmannia lanceolata, orange ripe corky fruits on old inflorescence axis at the base of the funnel shaped leaf crown, Bukit Panchor, Penang, Malaysia

    Johannesteijsmannia lanceolata, orange ripe corky fruits on old inflorescence axis at the base of the funnel shaped leaf crown, Bukit Panchor, Penang, Malaysia

  • Phytelephas seemannii, big coalescent fruits clustered at the base of thPhytelephas seemannii, big coalescent fruits clustered at the base of the old leaves, Terco, Nuqui, Choco, Colombiae old leaves, Terco, Nuqui, Choco, Colombia

    Phytelephas seemannii, big coalescent fruits clustered at the base of thPhytelephas seemannii, big coalescent fruits clustered at the base of the old leaves, Terco, Nuqui, Choco, Colombiae old leaves, Terco, Nuqui, Choco, Colombia

  • Phytelephas seemannii, coalescent spiny fruits cryptic among the dead leaves on forest floor, Terco, Nuqui, Choco, Colombia

    Phytelephas seemannii, coalescent spiny fruits cryptic among the dead leaves on forest floor, Terco, Nuqui, Choco, Colombia

  • Hornstedtia cyathifera, base of the plant with inflorescences and developing infructescences, Orchid garden, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

    Hornstedtia cyathifera, base of the plant with inflorescences and developing infructescences, Orchid garden, Rondon Ridge, 2000 m asl, Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea

  • Tupistra cf. fungilliformis, hanging down infructescence with green purple dotted berries, Sapa, Vietnam

    Tupistra cf. fungilliformis, hanging down infructescence with green purple dotted berries, Sapa, Vietnam

  • Amomum sp., fleshy and prickly capsualar cryptic fruit lying on forest floor, Timika, West Papua

    Amomum sp., fleshy and prickly capsualar cryptic fruit lying on forest floor, Timika, West Papua

  • Lagenandra ovata, fleshy cryptic concrescent fruits bending and touching water surface allowing seed dispersal, Neyyar, Kerala, India

    Lagenandra ovata, fleshy cryptic concrescent fruits bending and touching water surface allowing seed dispersal, Neyyar, Kerala, India

  • Barclaya longifolia, flower and two ripe fruits lying at the water surface, Takua Pa, Thailand

    Barclaya longifolia, flower and two ripe fruits lying at the water surface, Takua Pa, Thailand

  • Barclaya kunstleri, berried fruit protected by sepals, Selangor, Malaysia

    Barclaya kunstleri, berried fruit protected by sepals, Selangor, Malaysia

  • Barclaya kunstleri, the envelope of the ripe fruit decays, releasing the small black seeds embedded in a white floating air filled pulp allowing water dispersal, Selangor, Malaysia

    Barclaya kunstleri, the envelope of the ripe fruit decays, releasing the small black seeds embedded in a white floating air filled pulp allowing water dispersal, Selangor, Malaysia

  • Tupistra muricata, spinulose berry like fruit, Tat Sae waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos

    Tupistra muricata, spinulose berry like fruit, Tat Sae waterfall, Luang Prabang, Laos

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