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Juniper branch berries.

 

Actually, these are neither fruits nor berries. Strictly botanically speaking, fruits are the mature, ripened ovaries of flowering plants (Angiosperms). Berries are fleshy fruits of some flowering plants with seeds distributed throughout the interior.

 

Junipers are Gymnosperms. These "berries" are simply fleshy cones, not fruits at all.

 

And that concludes Professor McGovern's botany lesson for the day.

 

BTW, I'm not certain which species of juniper (Juniperus) this is; there are several species found throughout the western U.S.

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