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  2. Fig - Wikipedia

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    Persistent (or common) figs have all female flowers that do not need pollination for fruiting; the fruit can develop through parthenocarpic means. This is a popular horticulture fig for home gardeners. Dottato (Kadota), Black Mission, Brown Turkey, Brunswick, and Celeste are some representative cultivars.

  3. Fig wasp - Wikipedia

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    Contrary to popular belief, ripe figs are not full of dead wasps and the "crunchy bits" in the fruit are only seeds. The fig actually produces an enzyme called ficain (also known as ficin) which digests the dead wasps and the fig absorbs the nutrients to create the ripe fruits and seeds. [8]

  4. Ficus - Wikipedia

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    Some parthenocarpic cultivars of common figs do not require pollination at all, and will produce a crop of figs (albeit sterile) in the absence of caprifigs and fig wasps. Depending on the species, each fruit can contain hundreds or even thousand of seeds. [19] Figs can be propagated by seeds, cuttings, air-layering or grafting.

  5. Reproductive coevolution in Ficus - Wikipedia

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    These are pollinated by the fig wasp, Blastophaga psenes. In the cultivated fig, there are also asexual mutants. Fig trees either produce hermaphrodite fruit or female figs; only the female figs are palatable to humans. In exchange for a safe place for their eggs and larvae, fig wasps help pollinate the ficus by crawling inside the tiny hole in ...

  6. What Are Figs and How Do You Eat Them? - AOL

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    The tear-dropped pod know as a fig may seem like a fruit, but it's actually a flower. And that's just one of the jaw-dropping facts to learn about them. Skip to main content. Lifestyle. 24/7 Help ...

  7. Syconium - Wikipedia

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    The latter have male and female forms in different plants: seed figs contain female flowers with long styles and produce seeds; gall figs contain female flowers with short styles and male flowers and produce pollen. Once pollinated by a fig wasp, the individual florets inside the syconium develop into achenes or drupes, in which the seeds are ...

  8. Feb. 16—Ben Pike, a prominent British orchard consultant, reminds us that throughout history the fig tree has always been "a symbol of abundance, fertility and sweetness". Figs were well known ...

  9. Parthenocarpy - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known cultivated plant is a parthenocarpic fig that was first grown at least 11,200 years ago. [7] In some climates, normally-seeded pear cultivars produce mainly seedless fruit for lack of pollination. [8] When sprayed on flowers, any of the plant hormones gibberellin, auxin and cytokinin could stimulate the development of ...