Fig seems to have no flowers, but in fact, it has flowers. It is a typical kind of plant that seems to have no flowers but flowers. For the kind of flowering plants that bloom brightly, attract bees and butterflies, figs are cryptogamous plants.
In fact, the fig we usually eat is not its real fruit, but the fleshy ball formed by the expansion of the receptacle. The so-called fig is actually the compound fruit formed by the development of the huge receptacle and pistil. When breaking open the figs, we can see that there are filaments and many small seeds in them. Filaments are the pistils and small stems are the seeds produced by pollination. Fig flowers only have small pistils, no petals, the big receptacle will wrap up those small pistils, only to see a little pink stamens on the top, while the pistils grow along the four walls of the receptacle.
The pistils of fig are hidden in the receptacle, and the wind can't blow out pollen, and insects are not easy to get in and out to collect pollen. So how do figs pollinate? Originally, there was a small hole on the top of the receptacle of Fig. only one kind of insect was allowed to pollinate it, that is, the wasp. The wasp lays its eggs in the fig flower. When the inflorescence grows, the egg becomes a wasp. It goes around in the flower, stained with pollen grains, flies out of the hole at the top of the fig, and then flies to another fig to lay eggs, helping the fig to pollinate. When the female flower is pollinated, it will produce seeds.
