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Old 10-06-2004, 08:04 AM
Gardñ@Gardñ.info
 
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Default Question about Figs

in :

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.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0428082254.htm
In this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Drude
Molbo, postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research
Institute and collaborators report that two genetically distinct species
of wasps are present in at least half of the fig species surveyed.

Calimyrna Figs In California
.... they needed a tiny female wasp pollinator from Asia ... Fig Wasps:
Mechanism of Pollen
Transfer." Science 163: 580 ... Coevolution of Ficus and Agaonidae."
Annals of ...
waynesword.palomar.edu/pljune99.htm

Gall Flowers In Figs
.... Their coexistence with natural fig pollinator wasps is a ... Fig
Wasps: Mechanism of
Pollen Transfer." Science 163 ... Coevolution of Ficus and Agaonidae."
Annals of ...
waynesword.palomar.edu/gallfig.htm