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

On Mon, 31 May 2004 12:13:39 -0400, "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.

Figs are fertilized by a tiny little bug that crawls inside the flowers. The
bugs get trapped in there. Did you really wanna know that?

Thanks in advance for any answers

Warhola

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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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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wrote in message
...
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

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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wrote in message
...
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

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.


"'enry VIII" enry wrote in message
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wrote in message
...
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

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

cool info. Ingrid

" wrote:
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.


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i think i recall reading that growers place, at some spacing, branches of
male figs among the female fig trees. but i didn't find that info when
googling.