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Magnolia (Magnolia fraseri).
In the genus Magnolia, which belongs to the order Magnoliales, the fruit is an aggregate of follicles. When these follicles open to release their contents, the seedsâwhich are typically reddish in colorâoften hang pendulously from the cone-like fruit by slender threads.1