Bird-pollinated flowers typically appear ‘red’. Fuchsia excorticata (Onagraceae), a gynodioecious tree species endemic to New Zealand, is a notable exception. It produces ‘green’, cauliflorous flowers at early stages in flower ontogeny, when pistils are receptive. Flowers later turn ‘red’ as they lose their receptivity. We conducted field observations and spectrographic analyses to test whether: (1) receptive, green-phase flow...

Fleshy fruits come in a diversity of colours. Some of this diversity can be attributed to unique selection pressures exerted by different types of frugivores. For example, mammals tend to consume green, yellow, orange and brown fruits, while birds normally consume red and black fruits. However, it is not yet clear whether the diversity of colours displayed within assemblages of bird‐dispersed fruits can be attributed to avian...