The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica, a species of small shrub in the flowering plant family Moraceae, native to the Mediterranean region, together with western and southern Asia.

2022年8月10日 · In simple terms, figs are technically not a fruit ― they are inverted flowers. Fig trees don’t flower like apples and peaches. Their flowers bloom inside the pear-shaped pod, which later matures into the fruit we eat.

2024年6月28日 · Did you know that the fig is an inverted flower? Housed in a syconium, each fig contains 100 to 500 individual flowers. Consequently, when you eat a fig, you're consuming 100-500 individual fruits.

2025年3月8日 · fig, (Ficus carica), plant of the mulberry family (Moraceae) and its edible fruit. The common fig is indigenous to an area extending from Asiatic Turkey to northern India, but natural seedlings grow in most Mediterranean countries; it is cultivated in warm climates.

A fig produces many pouch-like syconia on its branches, which have hundreds of female flowers inside them. The flowers in common figs like ‘Brown Turkey’ and ‘Celeste’ do not need pollination in order to swell and produce sugary pulp.

2016年10月4日 · But, despite what you may have heard about figs in the past, we’re here to share something pretty shocking that you may not know - truth be told, figs are actually flowers. Yes, you read right, technically speaking figs are not a fruit, but rather are inverted flowers.

2024年12月26日 · Fig Tree Flowers. Unlike most fruit trees, the fig doesn’t produce visible flowers that bloom then develop into fruit. Instead, dozens of tiny flowers line the inner walls of the hollow fig fruit structure itself.

2023年1月25日 · The fig fruit is an inverted flower called a syconium. Inside every fig is 100-400 female flowers that are attached to the internal cavity of the fig. Each flower produces something called achenes, which is the true fruit of the fig tree.

In essence, the fig fruit is a fleshy stem with multiple tiny flowers that fruit and coalesce. Notably, three vegetative traits together are unique to figs.

2025年2月18日 · Ficus, (genus Ficus), genus of about 900 species of trees, shrubs, and vines in the family Moraceae, many of which are commonly known as figs. Native primarily to tropical areas of East Asia, they are distributed throughout the world’s tropics.