Common Fig Tree - Ficus Carica

Latin Name:

Ficus Carica

Regular price $14.99 CAD
SKU: 39064
We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors.Listing is for 5 SeedsCommon fig is a shrub with fuzzy twigs and sandpapery, lobed leaves which is widely cultivated in the south and has escaped a few gardens in Massachusetts. Its fleshy fruits are edible. Figs have a very unusual pollination scheme. Their flowers are actually produced inside the package (syconium) we think of as the "fig." Tiny wasps live inside the syconium and lay their eggs there, incidentally transferring pollen from flowers of one syconium to another. When the eggs hatch, the flightless males mate with...

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Meet Ficus Carica. The common name for this is Common Fig Tree. Stargazer Exotics is proud to offer the freshest of rare plant seeds. Other Common names for this rare Other Rare Plants are: Edible fig, sweet fig, black fig, white fig, Smyrna fig, Adriatic fig, Kadota fig. Check this Common Fig Tree (Ficus Carica) out along with all of our Other Rare Plants seeds here at Stargazer Exotics. We ship these Other Rare Plants seeds from Canada to anywhere in the World.
$14.99 CAD
We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors.
Listing is for 5 Seeds

Common fig is a shrub with fuzzy twigs and sandpapery, lobed leaves which is widely cultivated in the south and has escaped a few gardens in Massachusetts. Its fleshy fruits are edible. Figs have a very unusual pollination scheme. Their flowers are actually produced inside the package (syconium) we think of as the "fig." Tiny wasps live inside the syconium and lay their eggs there, incidentally transferring pollen from flowers of one syconium to another. When the eggs hatch, the flightless males mate with the females, and chew a hole through the syconium through which the females escape to fly to another syconium and carry on the cycle. Don't worry, though; you're unlikely to swallow a wasp when you eat a fig; they will have flown the coop by the time the "fig" is ripe.

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