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 10-Follicles, Magnolia

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This is a photograph of a cluster of follicles of the bay magnolia, Magnolia virginiana. The seeds are bright red to attract birds, who eat them and spread the seeds away from the parent plant.
Photo by K. R. Robertson of plant cultivated in Champaign, Illinois.
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