What is this fruit / flower?

I was walking my dog and I happened to look up at this particular tree. The fruit has a purple-ish red color to it. I tried to google a few different terms, but I can't come up with anything. I opened it up and it had these red bean looking things. Anybody know what this is?

Looks like something I saw on survivorman or dual survival, they did eat it, but I don't remember the name.
I'll do some looking.
Try this, see if it helps..........

http://www.arborday.org/trees/whattree/whatTree.cfm?ItemID=E6A

the fruit is called a gynoeceium. the plant it comes from is a magnolia. probably M. grandiflora. evergreen, big waxy green leaves. large white, very fragrant flowers.

-Dannyboy that's exactly what it is! thank you! I'm gunna try to germinate these and try my luck at growing a bonsai

-chucky thanks for that link. I mustve spent spent half a day on there trying to figure this out