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Kadota: doesn't need pollinating
Brown Turkey: doesn't need pollinating
Black Mission: doesn't need pollinating
Adriatic: doesn't need pollinating
Calimyrna: must be pollinated by a wasp
So in conclusion it is unlikely that if you pick a random fig from the supermarket that it was pollinated by a wasp.
I'm surprised by this sentence. At least Northern Rātā, and I'm sure other epiphyte species, do this.
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Figs have wasps remains in them. Wasps are a necessary step for pollination, explained here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofmeister_kink
This is great. I spent 30 minutes on Wikipedia reading about automotive design!
It was many years later when I discussed this with a friend who was telling me how wonderful his fresh figs were, and found that there was no peppery itching in his experience of figs. And came to the conclusion that I most likely have a mild fig allergy. It doesn't make them dangerous to me, just unpleasant; unless maybe I ate 100 figs, and there's no chance of that.
I still don't like them. De gustibus non disputandum est.
This is one of those articles where the author claims to have experience in the area and then states something so wrong you have to wonder what else they're incorrect about. "...although the word “fruit” is deceptive because figs are anatomically not really fruits but a cluster of hundreds of flowers enclosed in a smooth skin." Figs are a fruit. It's basically the definition of a fruit. If you want to say figs aren't…
A true fruit is only from the ovary[0] so it doesn't meat the strict definition as it includes the entire flower(s). As I understand there is debate about this but my dad is a botanist and I've heard him call figs "false fruits". You may disagree on that point but I don't think it's sufficient to discredit the author. [0] https://www.britannica.com/science/ovary-plant
I've definitely heard it as a tongue-in-cheek thing the way arborists complain about palm trees and call them "glorified grasses". That actually makes more sense to me though, as they're monocots.
-They're not fruit.
-What are they?
-They're a multiple fruit.
I'm not sure when it would be helpful to only consider fruits as coming from the ovary. There's other words for that and I don't understand why some like to define fruit in that way. Is there maybe a historical reason for it?
Edit: Wrote that they were aggregate fruits for some reason. Changed it to multiple fruits.
When I see figs come up in popular media lately, it's always in regards to the unlikely way in which they're pollinated in the wild. While it is very interesting, and may possibly be important to people eating vegan diets, it feels to me like it's missing a big part of the story of figs. Figs have an incredibly rich history and present - they were apparently one of the first plants cultivated by humans and they have…
> and may possibly be important to people eating vegan diets I just wanted to chime in and say that it's not important, at least not for the vast majority of vegans or others following vegan diets. Most of us are aware that plant foods are not without consequence to animals (e.g. there are likely some ground-up insects in flours). Veganism is more about not willingly/knowingly exploiting or violating the consent of a…
A person basically can't live in the modern world without destroying animals.
Although I do admire vegans who do it to try to make a difference there.
When I see figs come up in popular media lately, it's always in regards to the unlikely way in which they're pollinated in the wild. While it is very interesting, and may possibly be important to people eating vegan diets, it feels to me like it's missing a big part of the story of figs. Figs have an incredibly rich history and present - they were apparently one of the first plants cultivated by humans and they have…
> and may possibly be important to people eating vegan diets I just wanted to chime in and say that it's not important, at least not for the vast majority of vegans or others following vegan diets. Most of us are aware that plant foods are not without consequence to animals (e.g. there are likely some ground-up insects in flours). Veganism is more about not willingly/knowingly exploiting or violating the consent of a…
When I see figs come up in popular media lately, it's always in regards to the unlikely way in which they're pollinated in the wild. While it is very interesting, and may possibly be important to people eating vegan diets, it feels to me like it's missing a big part of the story of figs. Figs have an incredibly rich history and present - they were apparently one of the first plants cultivated by humans and they have…
> and may possibly be important to people eating vegan diets I just wanted to chime in and say that it's not important, at least not for the vast majority of vegans or others following vegan diets. Most of us are aware that plant foods are not without consequence to animals (e.g. there are likely some ground-up insects in flours). Veganism is more about not willingly/knowingly exploiting or violating the consent of a…
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A true fruit is only from the ovary[0] so it doesn't meat the strict definition as it includes the entire flower(s). As I understand there is debate about this but my dad is a botanist and I've heard him call figs "false fruits". You may disagree on that point but I don't think it's sufficient to discredit the author. [0] https://www.britannica.com/science/ovary-plant
I suppose if you want to narrowly define it in that way. But again, if figs are not fruits, then neither are the closely related mulberries. Pineapple is also not a fruit when defined like that. I've definitely heard it as a tongue-in-cheek thing the way arborists complain about palm trees and call them "glorified grasses". That actually makes more sense to me though, as they're monocots. -They're not fruit. -What ar…
Also, did I really misspell "meet" as "meat" in my other comment? Ugh.