Over the past 30 years, on the regional park (where we were camping at Easter), there has been a lot of tree planting and restoration of wetlands. These young kahikatea (or NZ white pine) were covered in berries. The seed is actually the black bit and the berry-like receptacles are red. The birds reach to eat the red part, and in doing so, ingest the seed, to be dispersed in another part of the wetland. We noticed some trees had no seeds at all and as I thought, there are separate male or female trees. I did think that the berry-like receptacles were called drupes, but I stand to be corrected on that?
@julzmaioro@susale@jamibann@golftragicYes - I would have like to have gone closer, but it's a wetland…. The berries start off green, then orange and finally this lovely red to attract the birds.
Interesting image full of colour Dianne, I've never seen any thing like these before thanks for the detailed narrative it all helps to paint the picture:)
Ian