The story of the fig and the wasp goes back as many years as man has grown fig trees, because fig wasps are the only pollinators for several species of fig trees. It is said that they co-evolved. This ...

I’m something of a weed snob. Having spent ages as a consumer, and now several years adjacent to the growing legal industry, I’ve been fortunate to try a lot of really special flowers. While I’m ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch Tino reveals the hidden flowers of figs, Jane has tips on caring for cyclamen after flowering and ...

Q. I’ve been told that all the seedy material inside a fig is really hundreds of miniature flowers. The fruit is nothing more then a protective incubator for the seeds. Is there any truth to this or ...

Figs are not actually fruits but a mass of inverted flowers and seeds that are pollinated by a species of tiny symbiotic wasps. The male fig flower is the only place where the female wasp can lay her ...