I'd better get this started - it's over a week since I photographed so many fruits, named them all, and then my computer had to go to get unstuck from an update to the newest Win 10 build. Douglas Justice's September 2016 in the Garden | UBC Botanical Garden blog article named several fruits out now, and then told us to just get out there and look around - there are lots of showy fruits to see. One of the first you can't avoid is the Meliosma oldhamii var. oldhamii on the entrance plaza, that smells so terrible, but is very attractive. That has compound leaves, whereas the Meliosma cuniefolia has simple leaves and dark fruits, and no bad smell at all. These wormheads were written up in Meliosma oldhamii var. oldhamii - Botany Photo of the Day (great wormhead (bud) photo from the first tree above) which includes Andy Hill's map to a location for each of the Meliosma species in the garden. Meliosma locations Here are two magnolia fruits, Magnolia cylindrical and M. campbellii 'Borde Hill'.
A very colourful tree (maybe it's a shrub) has a tag that says Cotoneaster sp. aff. bullatus var. macrophyllus, but in the database, I'm just finding Cotoneaster sp. in that area. Maybe it's been decided it was not bullatus after all? Or is the red tag newer? Flora of China says the leaves and petioles of C. bullatus are supposed to be pilose, which means covered with long soft hairs, or another place said it means furry. That would not apply to this, though there are a few hairs. Two more of this genus: Cotoneaster dielsianus var. elegans and Cotoneaster glabratus.
Eight Sorbus. There are lots more. Sorbus aronioides, S. discolor, S. glomerulata, S. 'Joseph Rock' Sorbus koehneana, S. macrantha, S. thibetica, S yuana I have room for a crabapple: Malus yunnanensis
Here is Viburnum betulifolium. I don't think much of my photos; better to check out Viburnum betulifolium - Botany Photo of the Day Arbutus menziesii has nice colourful fruits, as well as nice colourful bark. The Decaisnea insignis fruits, Dead Man's Fingers, have coloured up already - I wonder if they will still be there for Halloween. I'm sure I posted this some years ago as D. fargesii.
I forgot Sambucus cerulea, with its vibrant light blue fruits. Here's one with no colour interest at all: Davidia involucrata.
