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Many figs are pollinated by fig wasps which die inside the fruit. https://www.bonappetit.com/story/figs-and-wasps https://www.bonappetit.com/story/figs-and-was
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Many figs are pollinated by fig wasps which die inside the fruit.
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- culi 4y agoIt's a bit more remarkable than you're making it out to be. There are 855 species of Ficus (figs) and almost every one of them has a corresponding species of fig wasp. A wasp that pollinates basically only that species of fig The figs you buy at a supermarket are of a self-fertile variety of the common fig (Ficus carica), but even the wild variety of this species is not self-fertile