Ah-ha!

No wonder whenever I pick and eat my figs from my two huge trees in the
garden I feel great! I must have been doing that bee sting pain theraphy that I saw
being used on people on the medical channel! (Are you guys serious? I really
am curious about this one.) I never crunched on wasps, at least I never saw
them. I always peel and then cut in half my white figs before I eat them.

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday :-). I finally get to sit down for a few
days!

Ciao!
Patrizia G. Kane
SI, NY--zone 7 & freezing.

In a message dated 12/24/03 12:10:25 PM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

Jeez Nina ..... I used to like Fig Newtons.
Now I'll never be able to eat one without thinking of dead wasps !!

Mark Hill - Harrisburg PA - Zone 6A (where is currently feels like Zone 9)

-----Original Message-----
From: Internet Bonsai Club ] On Behalf Of
Nina Shishkoff
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 11:14 AM
To:
Subject: [IBC] Figs? On a Green Island Ficus

Bart said:
Those little things (NINA!!! What are they called?) are not fruit. The
actual blosson is inside them, and the tiny wasp must crawl inside to die
and fertilize the plant.

A receptacle? The "fig" is an inside-out stem containing many flowers
inside. Each crunch you hear in a fig newton is an individual fruit.
Except the crunch that represents the dead wasp.

Nina.




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