Did you know that the fig is actually not a fruit in the classical sense of the word? What we eat is actually is made up of hundreds of inverted ripe flowers enclosed inside a syconium. There are ...

The story of the fig and the wasp goes back as many years as man has grown fig trees, because fig wasps are the only pollinators for several species of fig trees. It is said that they co-evolved. This ...

I’m something of a weed snob. Having spent ages as a consumer, and now several years adjacent to the growing legal industry, I’ve been fortunate to try a lot of really special flowers. While I’m ...

Figs are not actually fruits but a mass of inverted flowers and seeds that are pollinated by a species of tiny symbiotic wasps. The male fig flower is the only place where the female wasp can lay her ...

If you've ever bitten into a fresh fig, you've tasted the delicious result of one of nature's most extraordinary and longstanding partnerships. But the figs in your local grocery store only tell a ...

Figs and wasps have a symbiotic relationship to keep reproducing A wasp in my fig? That’s what a social media post claimed. The video went into great detail to explain how female wasps enter figs to ...

Now there's certainly no prizes for guessing what these aerial roots and buttress roots belong to. This is Ficus macrophylla, the Moreton Bay fig and this particular tree is probably one of the oldest ...