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01-06-2004, 02:03 PM
Cheryl Isaak
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Question about Figs
About the only thing the tequila worm pollinates is the imagination of a
drunk!
Cheryl
On 6/1/04 8:32 AM, in article ,
"Cereus-validus" wrote:
The tequila plant, Agave tequiliana, flowers are bat pollinated, you dimwit.
Its your peanut brain that has the worm in it, Hankoff.
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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
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