Its easiest to think of figs as mulberries turned inside-out.

The fleshy receptacle completely surrounds the small flowers and access to
them is by the small hole at the top.

Cut one in half and you will see that the flowers are actually on the
inside.


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...
flowers are inside the developing fruit. wasps crawl in to fert the open
type of
fig. but most of the ones we grow are self fertile and the "eye" of the
fig is
closed. I dont know we even got the right wasp in teh US. Ingrid

"Warhola" wrote:

I just realized for the first time that my glorious fig tree produces
fruit
without a flower. How does this happen? How is it fertilized.

Thanks in advance for any answers

Warhola




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