Tuesday, June 20, 2023

A Fig is not a Fruit!

It’s fig season, and a recent post on the Nature Lovers blog has reminded us that a fig is not just an ordinary fruit.  In fact, it's not even a fruit at all.

First of all, they're technically the stem of an inverted inflorescence, with tiny flowers inside. The slight crunches experienced when eating a fig are each a flower with a seed, so a fig is actually a bud and is called an infruity (a set of fruits). Therefore, when we eat one fig, we are eating hundreds of fruits.

Enter “Figs” in the search box in the right sidebar for more posts with fig information and keep an eye out for a related article on figs in the Tallahassee Democrat in a few weeks.   

From UF/IFAS, much more information about figs and everything you need to know about growing figs in North Florida. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/MG214

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