Inside the rounded fruit of a fig tree is a maze of flowers. That is, a fig is not actually a fruit; it is an inflorescence—a cluster of many flowers and seeds contained inside a bulbous stem. Because ...

Growing Fig Trees at a Glance Common Name: Fig tree Scientific Name: Ficus carica Hardiness Zone: 6 through 10 Soil: Rich, ...

Spanish missions brought figs to Southern California in 1520, and almost 700 years later, they remain a popular crop throughout the U.S. Fig trees and their flowers are female, meaning they are ...

The flowers are small and inconspicuous. The branches of the fig tree droop as the tree grows, and will require pruning for clearance and weight reduction. Fig trees are susceptible to breakage ...

Question for Dan Gill: My fig tree is plentiful with green figs; however, they are not ripening. By this time in previous years, figs were beginning to ripen. Others in Metairie, where we live ...

Fig trees are one of the easiest fruit trees to ... Some rumors online insist that fig wasps pollinate those flowers by crawling inside fig fruit (where they die). If that’s an unsettling ...

Fig wasps are only two to three millimetres long and live an average of two to three days, but often fly 10 kilometres or more to get from a ripe tree to a flowering tree. Global warming is ...