Myrica rubra is a flower, not a fig. Myrica rubra usually blooms in April and its fruit matures in June-July. Myrica rubra dioecious. Male inflorescences solitary or clustered in leaf axils, cylindrical, and 1-3 cm long. Usually single spike-shaped, with inconspicuous short branches at the base. The basal bracts are sterile, the pregnant bracts are nearly round, entire, and the back is hairless, only covering glands, about 1 mm long, and each bract has 65438+ in its axils.

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Male flowers have 2-4 ovate bracts and 4-6 stamens; Anthers elliptic, dark red, glabrous. Female inflorescences are often solitary in leaf axils, shorter and thinner than male inflorescences, and 5- 15 mm long. Bracts are similar to male flowers, closely arranged in an imbricate arrangement, and each bract axil has 1 female flower. Female flowers usually have 4 ovate bracteoles; The ovary is ovoid, tiny and hairless, with a very short style at the top and two bright red slender stigmas. The inside of the stigmas are papillae on the surface of the stigmas. Only the upper part of each female inflorescence 1 (sparse 2) female flowers can develop and bear fruit.

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