I want to add this to the database but is this the fruit, bloom or something else? Anyone have any ideas? If it helps, I believe it looks like this first before turning pink and having the green things come out.

The second photo I would say is an early stage of seed production after the flowers have been shed. That would make them seed pods.

The following photo taken on 14th April 2012

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The same poster where he shows flowers in an earlier stage on 10th March 2012 ..

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The next photo from 22nd April 2013, it looks like an early stage of flowering the following year but is later than the previous year..

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Your first photo appears to be already in an early stage of producing seed pods but has not yet shed the flowers, the long greenish protrusion most likely drops off. I found a photo showing much the same stage along with a couple of flowers already shed, making the beginnings of a seed pod. It was from 18th November 2009, the plant must flower more than once in a year.

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Thanks Janet! Ive seen this plant at the NYBG for years but never knew what stage I was looking at! You really are a super sleuth!

Glad to have been of help Elena.

It certainly is a spectacular flower!