Does the fig really have no flowers? Of course not, it is a seemingly flowerless but flowery plant. Figs not only have flowers, and there are many flowers, just people with the naked eye can not see it. We eat figs, is not the real fruit of the fig, but its receptacle expansion of the formation of meatballs, fig flowers and fruits are hidden in that meatball. So from the outside can not see the fig flowers, this flower botanical belongs to the "hidden head inflorescence". If the fig's fleshy ball cut, with a magnifying glass to observe, you can see inside the numerous small balls, small balls in the center of the holes, holes in the growth of countless fluffy small flowers. Male and female flowers are separated from the top and bottom, each male flower, each female flower bears a small fruit, also hidden in the fleshy ball. If observed in detail with a dissecting microscope again, the female flowers can be clearly distinguished from the male flowers. When the pistil in the female flower and the stamen in the male flower are mature, the same process of pollination and fertilization, the total receptacle and the rest of the flower to develop into fruit.

The fig's stamens are hidden inside, so the wasp needs to crawl inside the fig to complete pollination of the flower. The female wasp burrows through a small hole in the bottom of the fig, lays an egg and dies. The eggs hatch, and the male wasp hatches, flies out of the fig, seeks out a fig with a female wasp in it to enter and mate with, and then dies. The female wasp flies away with the fertilized egg and pollen to begin a new cycle.

The fig is native to West Asia and the Middle East, where it has been cultivated and eaten by humans for more than 10,000 years, making it one of the key species of agricultural civilizations in the Old World. There are many varieties of figs, in addition to the oval purple color that can be seen on the market, there are also green and yellow. Xinjiang's varieties are yellow and oblate when ripe, while most mainland varieties are long oval and dark purple. Figs should also be divided into spring fruit and autumn fruit, spring fruit listed in July, not very sweet; autumn fruit listed between the end of August and mid-November, sweet and soft, suitable for a variety of ways to eat.