The story of the fig and the wasp goes back as many years as man has grown fig trees, because fig wasps are the only pollinators for several species of fig trees. It is said that they co-evolved. This ...

I’m something of a weed snob. Having spent ages as a consumer, and now several years adjacent to the growing legal industry, I’ve been fortunate to try a lot of really special flowers. While I’m ...

Did you know that the fig is actually not a fruit in the classical sense of the word? What we eat is actually is made up of hundreds of inverted ripe flowers enclosed inside a syconium. There are ...

Figs and wasps have a symbiotic relationship to keep reproducing A wasp in my fig? That’s what a social media post claimed. The video went into great detail to explain how female wasps enter figs to ...

It was eye-opening when we learned that artichokes are actually flowers. And that capers are pickled flower buds. But coming across what figs really are ― and the wasp that makes them possible ― has ...

Q. I’ve been told that all the seedy material inside a fig is really hundreds of miniature flowers. The fruit is nothing more then a protective incubator for the seeds. Is there any truth to this or ...

There’s nothing like growing your own fruits and vegetables and getting to enjoy their bounty throughout the season. It certainly helps when the plants look as great as they taste, and the fig tree is ...