alien life form?

Seedpod on a lightbox. Close-up screw-on lense used, no flash.

Gorgeous creamy flowers ... all through the bush. Prospect is for a bumper year for bloodwood seedpods

Seed pod of the sweet gum ... real ankle-twisters if you don't watch your step. Canon 500D closeup lens on S1-IS.

Dried up seed pod.

Seed pods from a vine seen in Toronto.

This is the developing seed pod. Photographed in Keith McLean Conservation Lands, along south end of Kent Bridge Road, Chatham-Kent, Ontario.

Wellington Ohio Metro Park

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The volunteer radish from last year's radish-gone-to-seed has now gone to seed.

Not quite sure what these testicular objects are, but they look really interesting close up.

In the same pot there are all stages of growth because I have the habit of crumpling seed pods back into the soil. So some are emerging from seeds just as others are ripening seed pods and others are in bud. Crazy. This is in an 8 inch terracotta pot in bright shade with frequent water.

Marah fabaceus

California Manroot

A weird looking seedpod of some description that I found on one of my walks around the motorcamp at Mapua (Nelson, New Zealand) where we were staying for the weekend.

Datura stramonium

American sweetgum, also known as American storax, hazel pine, bilsted, redgum, satin-walnut, star-leaved gum, alligatorwood, or simply sweetgum, is a deciduous tree in the genus Liquidambar native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America and tropical montane regions of Mexico and Central America. Wikipedia

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December 11, 2019

Photographed in Peers Wetland, near Wallaceburg, Ontario.

Seedpod

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Salt Creek, next to the back parking lot at my job, York and 22nd St., Oak Brook, IL.