The fig flower is ovary-superior.

The fig's flower is inside the fruit, and usually the fig is enclosed inside the bud. Figs fruit twice a year, with spring fruits growing out of flower buds far less flavorful and nutritious than summer fruits.

The fig's flower is not obvious, it is in the internal ovary, the surface does not show, so it is called a fig, but in fact figs, still have flowers.

The fig (scientific name: Ficus carica Linn.) is the mulberry family, ficus genus. Deciduous shrubs or small trees; up to 10 meters high, multi-branched; bark gray-brown, skin show; branchlets thick, leaves alternate, thickly papery, broadly ovoid, length and width of 10-20 cm, palmate 3-5 lobes, lobules ovate, with irregular obtuse teeth; petiole thick, 2-5 cm long; dioecious, male flowers and gall flowers are born on the inner wall of a Ficus carica fruit, the male flowers are set at the mouth of the aperture, the female perianth is the same as the male flowers, styles lateral; Ficus fruit solitary Leaf axil, pyriform, 3-5 cm in diam., apically concave, purplish red or ripe, basal bracts 3, ovate, achenes lenticular. Flowering and fruiting May-July.

Distributed along the Mediterranean coast from Turkey to Afghanistan; i.e., imported from Persia, cultivated in the north and south, especially in the south. Figs on the soil conditions are not strict, in the typical gray loam, lime desert sandy soil, moist subtropical acidic red soil and alluvial clay loam can be relatively normal growth.

The fig is not without flowers, just can not see the flowers, so it is called fig, in fact, figs have flowers:

The flowers of figs grow inside the fig fruit, if the fruit just grow out when it is cut open, you will be able to see a lot of small flowers, male and female, and then pollinated inside, by the stamen and receptacle fully developed into a fig.

Generally can not see the fig flowers, so people think that the fig does not flower, and therefore give it the name of fig. Botanists refer to fig-like fruits as polyanthus or compound fruits, which develop from the inflorescence.