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Old 01-06-2004, 02:02 PM
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Default Question about Figs

The tequila plant, Agave tequiliana, flowers are bat pollinated, you dimwit.

Its your peanut brain that has the worm in it, Hankoff.


"'enry VIII" enry wrote in message
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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


Pretty close to the same way that the worm fertilizes the Tequilla plant.

'enry VIII