I found this brief article interesting and thought some of you might too. I learned only recently that figs are pollinated differently.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100114143513.htm
Reward and Punishment re: FIGS
I too found this study very interesting. There are many scientific (and/or readable) discussions on figs that explain why the figs we grow in our yards do not need any pollination but the origin of the different cultivars is from the figs trees that do require pollination. As I understand it, the wasps that pollinate figs can only live in CA (and the dry areas of the "old world" I guess).
Paul
Fig are so strange.
Hey - those wasps make it to Connecticut and inside my house! I have a single Chicago Hardy fig and it bears inside my house. Yes, figs are strange - - and tasty.
Yes and so unlike mulberries which are close kin to figs.
AYankeeCat, Chicago Hardy, also listed as Hardy Chicago, is a common or persistant fig which does not need to be fertilized to produce fruit.
http://www.nafex.org/figs.htm
http://www.ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/datastore/391-296.pdf
http://raysfiginfo.com/id-dark.html
Roger,Roger Betty you are correct!
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