Tag: Blastophaga psenes

Botanical-style illustration of four whole purple figs and one lengthwise-cut fig on a warm stone surface, with lobed green fig leaves behind them. The cut fig reveals a pale fleshy wall surrounding a dense reddish interior of tiny flower-derived structures and pale seeds.

Why Does a Fig Keep Its Flowers on the Inside?

 cacophony  10/23/2026

A fig encloses tiny flowers in a fleshy syconium. Wasp pollination matters for some types, but common figs can ripen without it.

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