The females, now covered in fig pollen from the caprifig, fly out to begin the cycle again.
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Modern figs, which descended from the wild caprifig, are one of the oldest fruits dried and stored by man.
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There are dozens of fig cultivars, including main and Breba cropping varieties, and an edible caprifig ( the Croisic ).
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He wrote early reports on caprifigs ( so-called inedible figs ), the Kadota fig, and general fig culture.
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Fig trees either produce male fruit known as caprifigs or female figs, where only the female figs are edible by humans.
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Fig wasps grow in common fig caprifigs but not in the female syconiums because the female flower is too long for the wasp to successfully lay her eggs in them.
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If the female wasp crawls into a fig, she will not be able to successfully lay her eggs despite pollinating the fig with pollen from the caprifig she hatched in.
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Some parthenocarpic cultivars of common figs do not require pollination at all, and will produce a crop of figs ( albeit sterile ) in the absence of caprifigs or fig wasps.
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Aristotle noted that as in animal sexes, figs have individuals of two kinds, one ( the cultivated fig ) that bears fruit, and one ( the wild caprifig ) that assists the other to bear fruit.
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In exchange for a safe place for their eggs and larvae, fig wasps help pollinate the ficus by crawling inside the tiny hole in the apex of the fig, called the ostiole without knowing whether they crawled into a caprifig or a fig.
