Here are trees, shrubs, and vines which produce berries and other "fruits".
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Wax myrtle berries grow in clumps directly on the branches. (October 19, 2018)
[A close view of the middle part of a wax myrtle tree with numerous clumps of small blue berries attached to the brown bark of the main branches of the tree. The long thinleaves grow on much smaller branches away from the berries.]

Dahoon holly tree and its berries (November 5, 2018)
[A close view of many rounded oval green leaves and bunches of small round red berries hanging from them.]

Brazillian pepper tree and its berries are non-native. (January 31, 2021)
[This tree is very similar to the Dahoon holly, but its leaves are a little shorter and are more yellow-green than the dark green of the Dahoon holly. This is a zoomed out view of a large tree laden with red berries.]

Blackberry flowers with their currently green berry centers (March 24, 2019)
[More than a dozen flowers with long thin white petals at the ends of branches of green leaves decorate this shrub. At the center of each five-petal flower is a green berry to be with thin white fuzzies radiating around it.]

I've not yet identified these flowers which have already begun growing red berries. (February 27, 2019)
[This image has two flowers. Each has five wide white petals with raspberry-like center surrounded by long thin pink stamen. The flower on the left is more closed, so the berry center is not as apparent as the one on the right.]

Lantana (June 12, 2015) has many variations (March 24, 2017).
[Two photos spliced together. The photo on the left is one bloom. It is a cluster of tiny flowers some of which are white with yellow centers and other which are pink with red centers. The innermost buds have not yet bloomed. The photo on the right has three stems. The two rightmost ones have yet to have the orange buds bloom. The leftmost stem is blooming with yellow and orange tiny flowers.]

Lantana nearly in full bloom on the left and starting to bloom on the right (April 23, 2021)
[Two photos spliced together. The photo on the left is two blooms with one above the other. Both have tiny pink flowers around the outer circle, yellow flowers as an inner ring, and tightly closed squares in the center. On the right is one bloom with five yellow flowers in a star shape on the outer edges. All the rest of the outer edges and the inner parts are tightly closed squares.]

Lantana can even be purple (November 13, 2020).
[The cluster of tiny light purple flowers closest to the camera is on the right edge of the photo. The flowers are completely open and have whitish centers and drops of dew on them. There is one other cluster with opened blooms, but it is mostly behind the leaves and stem of the plant. There are two clusters of unopened flowers. Those flowers are dark purple and resemble upside-down unopened umbrellas. The leaves on the plant are wide and medium green.]

Lantana can also be white (March 21, 2022).
[One cluster of tiny white flowers faces the camera showing several center buds still fully closed. The centers of these flowers are yellow. A second cluster faces mostly downward, but some yellow center dots are visible.]

Lantana berries (August 5, 2018).
[Amid green leaves is a clump of berries. The ones on the right side of the clump have turned blue while the leftmost ones are still green.]

Southern dewberry wildflowers (March 19, 2015) progress to produce dewberries (May 2, 2016).
[Two photos spliced together. Photo on left displays tWo white flowers. Each has five petals which are completely separate from each other. The middle of the flower is bunch of thin, long filaments topped with a dark color. Photo on right has three segmented berries. Each berry is at the top of a single stem which is about four inches tall. The largest berry on the left is shades of green and pink. The slightly smaller one beside it is a brighter shade of red. The small berry on the right is still all green. ]

Southern dewberry closed bud and berries on the same plant (March 5, 2023)
[In the upper left of the image is a tightly closed white ball half-covered with greenery which will become the underside of the flower. To the right of it are two berries. The left berry is all green with small berry segments. To the right of it is an all-red berry with plump segments which each are at least four times as large as green segments. ]

Southern dewberry wildflowers as the berry begins to take form (March 23, 2021)
[Two photos spliced together. Each photo is of one white five-petaled flower. Photo on left has a greenish center to the flower and is a partial side view with the long stamen visible due to the contrasting color against the white petal. Photo on right is a top-down view of a different flower which has a very red center. Even the tips of the stamen are reddish. The stamen are flat against the petals and no longer upright like in the photo on the left. ]

Black nightshade flowers (March 24, 2017) eventually produce berries (April 4, 2017).
[Two photos spliced together. Photo on left displays a branch of a plant with two offshoots visible. The top one has several leaves. The bottom one has a sub-branching of six stems leading to white-petaled flowers with yellow stubs emanating from the center of flower. The bottom flowers have their petals folded back towards the stem while the top flowers have their closed petals completely hiding the yellow centers. Photo on right has masses of smooth black berries at the ends of stems attached to the main vertical branches amid the many leaves. There is also one grouping of green berries. ]

Elderberry flowers before they open (June 18, 2022)
[Two photos spliced together of two different end caps on an elderberry plant where the soon to be small white blooms are tightly closed. On the left the thin branches have not yet splayed and are a tight wad. On the right the thin branches of the buds have mostly separated so the individual buds are no longer touching each other.]

Elderberry flowers (April 22, 2017)
[A large group of many tiny white five-petaled booms. Although leaves can be seen in the background, there are so many blooms that leaves can only be seen on the outer edges of the white bunch.]

Elderberries in different stages on the same plant (June 28, 2022)
[Two photos spliced together. On the top are green elderberries. They group in a grouping on the ends of stems which protrude from the leaves. On the bottom are ripening elderberries. Not only are the berries red or purple, but the plant steams are also red.]

These appear to be ripe elderberries. (June 18, 2022)
[A view of blue-black berries on the branches with some branches already missing the berries.]

Flowers of the American beautyberry bush (June 21, 2022)
[The stem protrudes from the plant and at each juncture with leaves there are small flowers around the circumference of the branch. At the outer tip the small lilac-colored buds are tightly closed. At the next section inward the flowers are completely open with white and yellow stamen protruding from the lilac leaves.]

Flowers after they fall from the American beautyberry bush (June 21, 2022)
[The small very light purple flowers with their yellow tipped white stamen lie on a large green leaf. The stamen extend beyond the petals and the yellow tips are ball-like.]

American beautyberry bush with its green and ripening berries on two different branches (July 23, 2020)
[Two images spliced together. On the left are clumps of yellow-green berries surrounding the branch. The large leaves extend from the same branch near each berry clump. On the right are berries beginning to turn purple. In each bunch some berries are still yellow green while others have begun transitioning to a light purple.]

The entire American beautyberry bush (August 16, 2015) and a close view of the berries (August 16, 2015)
[Two images spliced together. On the left is a bush. The bush is irregular in shape with lots of branches emanating in different directions. All branches have spots of purple berries along the stem. The right image is a closer view of the berries. A long branch of this berry bush has light purple berries growing at regular intervals. The ones closes to the main stalk are all purple while the ones further away graduate in color until they are all green. Some berries are part green and part purple.]

I've not yet identified the plant with the brown-red berries intertwined with the American beautyberry bush (September 30, 2020)
[In the middle of the image are two clumps of brownish-red berries. Above and below them are purple beautyberries which are smaller in diameter. There are two sets of leaves with the beautyberry ones much larger than the other. The brown-red berries are nearly twice the diameter of a beautyberry berry.]

Before the pears develop, the prickly pear cactus flowers (May 5, 2016) This prickly pear cactus was growing in someone's yard. (August 13, 2015)
[Two images spliced together. On the left, many green protuberances grow from the catcus. One of these has a curled yellow flower just starting to open. Another protuberance has a light color at the end of it, but flower petals have not yet formed. The image on the right isa close view of the pears. Some are purple while most are still green. ]

Close view of prickly pear cactus flowers (May 4, 2021)
[Two images spliced together. On the left, are the pink and yellow curled petals of a mostly closed bloom. On the right is a straight down view of a yellow bloom which is open just enough at the top to see the center stamen. The petals are curled around the center into a bulb. ]

Prickly pear cactus flower with morning dew (May 16, 2023)
[At the top of one small areole is a closed bloom where the only segments of pink and yellow are showing. Most of what is showing is the light green underside of the still tightly closed petals. The closed bloom is twirled sort of like a twistee ice cream cone. At the top fo the bloom are speckles of white dew drops. ]

Fully-open prickly pear cactus flower (May 1, 2022)
[Through an opening in a metal chain link fence is a fully-opened yellow flower with overlapping petals so one can not see what is behind the petals. In the center are two different type of stamen. There are many thin wirey ones and one in the center which looks like a tiny bloom about to open. All are shades of yellow. ]

New pears in the early stages of ripening on a prickly pear cactus (October 20, 2020)
[At the outer edges of the flat cactus leaves are multiple pear fruits extending to the right. Some are small and very green while others are starting to turn purple. These pears have a flat bottom which is opposite the cactus leaves.]

New cactus leaves (April 8, 2020)
[Three small leaves on a branch with one very large flat leaf. The smaller leaves have long thick green spiny protrusions all over them. They almost look rubbery. The newer leaves are a much lighter green than the larger leaf.]

Florida wild pineapple in its earlier stage on the left (May 20, 2021 on left and May 28, 2020 on right)
[Two images spliced together. The plant has long thin reddish spikes similar to aloe. In the center is a bloom. On the left, is a view through a chain link fence. The center bloom has white petals with maroon tips. The bloom is stacked in about seven layers. On the right are dried out brown petals in the center where the bloom was. ]

These yellow-orange fruits might be loquat. (October 20, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. The right image is a close view of the yellow-orange fruits grouped together at the base of the plant. Each fruit is approximately 1.5 inches in diameter and slightly longer than it is wide. The fruits are attached to the stem of the plant so tightly that the stem is not visible. The image on the left is a zoomed out view with a plant behind it with very long narrow aloe-like leaves which dwarf the fruit section of the image. These two plants are growing on the near side of a chain-link fence.]

This cycad, zamia floridana a.k.a. coontie, is not a tree or a palm and only grows to about three feet high. It produces interesting cones and red seeds. (January 16, 2019)
[Several bushes grouped together and then another off to the left of the main grouping. The many branches all have long thin leaves which extend upward to the sky. There are enough branches and leaves that one can not see through the plant. At the bottom of two of the bushes on the main grouping are large red-orange seeds.]

These close views show the cones (on left) at the base of the female plants and seeds within the cones (on right). (January 16, 2019)
[Two images spliced together. The image on the left has brown cones which remind me of shucked corn with brown dried-out kernals. The cones are tucked under the laves so the image is more leaves than cones. The image on the right is a cone which has burst open showing large (much larger than corn kernals would be) red-orange seeds. About a half dozen seeds are loose on the ground in front of the open cone.]

These green "balls" will eventually turn gold (next image). (June 16, 2022)
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I believe these are muscadine grapes. (September 4, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a view of a vine with its large roundish leaves with yellowing on the edges is spread across quite a bit of fence completely obscuring it. On the right is a close view of the fruits of this vine. They are grape-sized gold balls. ]

Virginia creeper is known to change colors in the fall, but I found these red leaves in late spring. (May 9, 2020)
[Two photos spliced together. The image on the left shows a large section of this vine which grows leaves in sets of five (palmate). One set has three red leaves. The right image is a close view of the palmate with the three red leaves. ]

Virginia creeper also produces fruit. (September 4, 2022)
[Hanging from a woody branch are what appear to be bunches of round blue grapes on reddish stems. The long triangular-shaped green leaves are growing from different sections of the branch.]

American pokeweed plant at various stages (May 14, 2022)
[Three photos spliced together. On the far left is a zoomed out view of the plant showcasing its long green leaves. At various segments of the branch are sticks with either white flowers or green berries as different parts of the plant are in different stages. The middle photo is a close view of one of the branches with its white blooms. At the top the blooms are little balls. Further down the blooms have opened showing the green ball centers. Near the bottom the blooms are mostly green balls. The photo on the right has almost no white left as the green berries are quite plump. ]

American pokeweed (October 8, 2022)
[Close view of purple-pink branches with short stems. Some stems are empty. Some have purple-black berries. Some have green berries. And some are an in-between light purple color.]

These may be small melons. (August 20, 2023)
[A plant with wide flat leaves and many smooth yellow spherical fruits each about the size of a tennis ball. There are 15-20 fruits. ]

I think these may just be seed pods which have just not yet opened, but I don't know for sure because I have not yet identified the plant. (October 20, 2023)
[The all-white spheres appear to be in groups of our at the end of small branches coming from a main branch. There is a reddish-brown center to each foursome. ]

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