2013Oct7 - Lots of little fruits and lots of little flowers

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    There are still some showy flowers around, but it was little fruits and flowers day on Monday. Nadia or I have posted these two before - Sorbus 'Joseph Rock (OK, we've posted it a lot of times before - it's one of the stars of the entrance plaza) and Meliosma pinnata var. oldhamii.
    20131007_UBCBG_SorbusJosephRock_Cutler_ P1540765ps.jpg 20131007_UBCBG_MeliosmaPinnataVarOldhamii_Cutler_ P1540762ps.jpg

    In back of the Admin Building is this Zanthoxylum piperitum. We posted the flowers last May. Nadia was really excited to see the black seeds inside the red shells. According to Plants For a Future, these seeds are a component of the Chinese five spice powder. The huge red fruit, 2 or 3cm, so huge in the company of all these others, and also I think compared to other Photinia fruits, is Photinia beauverdiana. And Ilex pedunculosa, with its long stems.
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    We posted Lonicera quinquelocularis last year, with its almost clear fruits of no apparent colour. And then here's Viburnum henryi, with enough colour for both of them.
    20131007_UBCBG_LoniceraQuinquelocularis_Cutler_P1540828ps.jpg 20131007_UBCBG_ViburnumHenryi_Cutler_P1540915ps.jpg

    In the north garden, Kalmia buxifolia was very showy in its small way. And the blue fruits on Berchemia scandens look nice against the to me more interesting red-veined yellow leaves.
    20131007_UBCBG_KalmiaBuxifolia_Cutler_P1540981ps.jpg 20131007_UBCBG_BerchemiaScandens_Cutler_P1550024ps.jpg 20131007_UBCBG_BerchemiaScandens_Cutler_P1550026ps.jpg

    Transitioning to little flowers, here's a photo I've been trying to get, of the sepals of Heptacodium miconioides. There are still some flowers too.
    20131007_UBCBG_HeptacodiumMiconioides_Cutler_P1540856ps2.jpg 20131007_UBCBG_HeptacodiumMiconioides_Cutler_P1540892ps.jpg

    I thought I must have posted Tetrapanax papyrifer here before, but it seems I've only posted one photo of the two next to the Reception Centre, in a Plants Id thread. I think one of the plants here never opened its flowers last year. Flowers are open on both this year.
    20131007_UBCBG_TetrapanaxPapyrifer_Cutler_ P1540737ps.jpg 20131007_UBCBG_TetrapanaxPapyrifer_Cutler_ P1540740ps.jpg

    On September 9, I posted a few flowers from the Tetradium glabrifolium. It has more open flowers now, though it still seem to conserve the buds for an extended flowering period.
    20131007_UBCBG_TetradiumGlabrifolium_Cutler_P1540778.jpg 20131007_UBCBG_TetradiumGlabrifolium_Cutler_P1540780ps.jpg

    I had a hard time believing that Nadia has the name right on this Berchemia racemosa, since it looks so different from the Berchemia whose fruits I posted above. But we've posted both of them before. It's been in bloom for at least three weeks.
    20131007_UBCBG_BerchemiaRacemosa_Cutler_P1540775.jpg 20131007_UBCBG_BerchemiaRacemosa_Cutler_P1540775ps1.jpg

    And here is Elaeagnus glabra.
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