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Buck with Velvet Rack Buck with Velvet Rack
Nature’s development interesting, informative
Planting a garden bean row or a walnut tree forest rarely means only returning to the scene months or years later to reap pole bean fruit or walnut and lumber without intermediate looks.
 Wild black raspberries are in the midst of producing a crop of aggregate fruits, but much more went into making a bucket of berries. A whole lot of interesting, educational, biological, photographically pleasing, and amazing things happened.
 Here, near the end of blackcap fruit development, the remains of some earlier steps still show what are commonly called telltales of flowers that were pollinated. These are more than tales but realities of second year flowering canes producing blooms, being bee-pollinated, and developing a complex fruit with individual seeds in each tiny fruitlet.
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