One of my favourite flowers, once pollinated becomes one of my favourite fruits! The spring-flowering pawpaw, "Asimina triloba", is Ontario's sole member of the Annonaceae, a primarily tropical family comprised of the absolutely most delicious fruits found on Earth!
A red milkweed beetle wandering off its host plant, on a leaf of swamp rose mallow. Brown-eyed susan in the background.
The dehisced fruit of common milkweed, "Asclepias syriaca", in early fall.
