http://greenspade.com/brown-turkey-fig-ficus-carica-brown-turkey Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:52:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://greenspade.com/brown-turkey-fig-ficus-carica-brown-turkey/comment-page-1#comment-136 Chris Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:43:29 +0000 http://greenspade.com/?p=188#comment-136 The small orifice visible on the middle fruit is a narrow passage, which allows a very specialised wasp, the fig wasp, to enter the fruit and pollinate the flower, whereafter the fruit grows seeds. The small orifice visible on the middle fruit is a narrow passage, which allows a very specialised wasp, the fig wasp, to enter the fruit and pollinate the flower, whereafter the fruit grows seeds.

]]> http://greenspade.com/brown-turkey-fig-ficus-carica-brown-turkey/comment-page-1#comment-131 Cheryl Bland Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:22:53 +0000 http://greenspade.com/?p=188#comment-131 I was talking to a friend from Turkey, her father grows figs. She said the crop is not doing well because the insect needed to polinate it was scarce this year. She did not know the name of the insect in English, can you tell me? Thank You, Cheryl I was talking to a friend from Turkey, her father grows figs. She said the crop is not doing well because the insect needed to polinate it was scarce this year. She did not know the name of the insect in English, can you tell me?
Thank You,
Cheryl

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