p.k. writes
Steve Wolstenholme wrote:


I went off figs when I read about the way they are pollinated.



Why?

The flowers are inside what we know as the fig. They are pollinated by
wasps which enter the fig, and the fig and the wasps have co-evolved
into an intricate interweaving of life stages, whereby the fig produces
I think 3 different types of flower in the year, to adapt to different
stages of the wasp lifecycle. If I remember correctly, at one stage the
male wasps live their whole life in the fig ... but it is very
complicated and I may be misremembering.
--
Kay