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Common Fig
Ficus carica
40.6266, 23.0026
Field Notes
Description:
Although commonly referred to as a fruit, the fig is actually is an enclosed inflorescence, sometimes referred to as a syconium, an urn-like structure lined on the inside with the fig's tiny flowers. The synconium (fruiting structure) that grows in the axils (where leaf meets stem) may range in color from yellow to green to purple to bronze on the outside, with 30 to 1600 tiny flowers inside. The unique fig pollination system, involving tiny, highly specific wasps, known as fig wasps that enter via ostiole these sub-closed inflorescences to both pollinate and lay their own eggs, has been a constant source of inspiration and wonder to biologists.
Notes:
Greek name: Συκή η καρική. Greek common name: Συκιά.
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PublishedApril 22, 2016
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