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Old 18-10-2007, 10:16 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Fig bount!
In reply to K ) who wrote this in
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p.k. writes
Steve Wolstenholme wrote:


I went off figs when I read about the way they are pollinated.



Why?

The flowers are inside what we know as the fig. They are pollinated by
wasps which enter the fig, and the fig and the wasps have co-evolved
into an intricate interweaving of life stages, whereby the fig
produces I think 3 different types of flower in the year, to adapt to
different stages of the wasp lifecycle. If I remember correctly, at
one stage the male wasps live their whole life in the fig ... but it
is very complicated and I may be misremembering.

Wow!

I am intrigued now. Figs are best raw IMHO, unless they are green in which
case they are best tinned.


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