On the left, a fig is drawn and accompanied by the text « this is not a fruit ». In the middle part, the flowering of a fig is pictured. In male fig trees, the syconium contains sterile short-style female flowers and fertile male flowers. In female fig trees, the syconium contains fertile long-style female flowers and atrophied and sterile male flowers. On the right, a mature fig.
Figs are not fruits, and you have probably never seen fig tree flowers.
* Fig trees’ flowering takes place out of sight in a syconium.
* In botany, a fruit results from the transformation of a flower's ovary. Therefore, a fig is not a single fruit but a cluster of fruits.
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