Question about Figs

 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

 

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? ;)

 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



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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.



type of

 

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

'enry VIII