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. It has been cultivated since ancient times and is now widely grown throughout the world.

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.

2023年6月2日 · Are figs a fruit? Nope. With their fruity sweetness, figs certainly seem like the belong in the fruit family, but they're actually an inverted flower. The seeds inside a fig are the real fruit! How do figs become figs?

The fig is a false fruit or multiple fruit, in which the flowers and seeds grow together to form a single mass. Depending on the type, each fruit can contain up to several hundred to several thousand seeds.

2021年6月16日 · Fig (Ficus carica) is one of the ancient fruits that find its mention even in Bible (Rahmani & Aldebasi, 2017). Its cultivation dates back to 5000 BC and the leaves of the plant have been excavated from Neolithic sites. Often referred as “The fruit of the heaven”, fig is the fruit of the flowering plant in mulberry family.

2024年12月18日 · Figs (Ficus carica) are a unique fruit resembling a teardrop. They’re about the size of your thumb, filled with hundreds of tiny seeds, and have an edible purple or green peel. The flesh...

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.

The fruit of Ficus is an inflorescence enclosed in an urn-like structure called a syconium, which is lined on the inside with the fig's tiny flowers that develop into multiple ovaries on the inside surface. [7] In essence, the fig fruit is a fleshy stem with …

2022年9月19日 · The fig is often referred to as a fruit, though it's actually a group of tiny flowers growing inside an edible shell. Most of the world's figs are grown in Greece, Portugal, Turkey, Spain, and California. Best in autumn, figs are intensely sweet, so they're used in desserts, though they work in savory dishes and are eaten whole as well.

Breba crop levels are partially determined by climatic and cultural conditions, but genetic factors are also involved. Fruit of the main crop of common-type figs can become caprified as a result of growing near Smyrna-type orchards or if fig wasps are endemic in the growing area.