Magnified view inside syconium of Ficus rubiginosa showing two
male and two female fig wasps (Pleistodontes imperialis),
similar to Pegoscapus spp. The smaller males (left) have a black
head and amber-colored, wingless body. The winged females
(right) are larger with longer antennae. In this image, the
inseminated females have emerged from their individual flowers
and are ready to escape from the syconium. Photo by W.P.
Armstrong, courtesy of Wayne's Word. Florida strangler fig
(Ficus aurea). Photo by Walter Hodge, USF Herbarium Slide
Collection. Shortleaf fig, also known as the giant bearded fig
or wild banyan tree (Ficus citrifolia). Photo by Pedro Acevedo-
Rodriquez. By Beatriz Moisset Fig trees have no visible flowers.
At first one might think that they are wind pollinated. Who
would visit such an unattractive non-flower? A fig is actually
the stem of an inflorescence, very enlarged and fleshy, that
surrounds the tiny flowers inside. The crunchy little things
that you notice when eating a fig are the seeds