#fig facts

[linope]

For science,

What do you fear most?

Don't mind the accumulated dust on this ask of yours, the abhorrent guts have been rioting, making it hard to think of answers for inquiries.

As for the question at hand, none of them are very unsual i fear, it's mostly a matter of tight spaces and high places (more commonly known as claustrophobia and acrophobia.)

Pray tell, what's yours? And what kind of science are you conducting?

[plantnerderyallday]

You probably know by now about figs and wasps- but did you know that there's multiple species of fig wasps, and that the species that pollinates the edible fig most of us know, Blastophaga psenes, is a wasp that doesn't inhabit cooler climates?

Further, did you know there were three categories of the edible fig, Ficus carica, and that two of them can produce fruit without pollination?

There's persistent/common figs, which are those that have all female flowers and don't require pollination to produce fruit. Then there's San Pedro types, which can produce a ripe breba crop without pollination, but to make a main crop need pollination. The third type is smyrna figs, which need pollination to produce fruit- and that pollen comes from caprifigs, that botanically speaking, have perfect flowers in that they have both male and female parts.

Figs are considered gynodioecious, a third category on top of monoecious and dioecious that some of us learned about in biology.

Or that's my current understanding as someone who lives outside of Fig wasp range. I have gathered that in areas that have the wasp, seedling figs can pop up, or rather, figs have naturalized, so any random fig of unknown origin might be tasty or might be awful. Here though, every fig tree was planted by an individual on purpose. And 90% of them are the Desert King cultivar.

[definatlynotsixcatsinatrenchcoat]

Scented candles do not cause infertility. Don't listen to the naysayers. Eat your candles!

[thefigs]

inside of you are two wolves. one of them is a gelatinous wasp

[linope]

Hello lich, have you got any new hobbies you're working on atm?

Hey fae~! It's been a bit, how are you? :] As for the question, it's funny you should ask that, because sort of, yeah :D Built my own pc sometime in october of last year and it's been in desperate need of cleaning, so been doing that ~

(if you'd asked this like, a week ago, the answer'd have been no. Beacuse this lich is a lich, life's all work, no play x])

Hbu?

[linope]

Hello Li!

What are you thinking about?

Hoi Void!

Been suspecting the Fates of punishing me for outing them in the story I wrote you (Was hit with a unexpected week-long flare-up of the Blight curse, followed by a side effect of the Blight that rarely happens, followed by a very random, very achy left shoulder/collarbone/idk what?? (which sucks since I'm left-handed and really need to get back to drawing x))

How about you? What's been on your mind?

[linope]

okay my turn!! what's your favorite movie?

Howl's Moving Castle's The Fav, hands down. The art and animation alone has that kind of evergreen charm that makes me fully forget about reality for a blissful blip in time~

[bugcartoons]

My professor reminded me of the horrifying fact that figs arent vegan or vegitarian because depending on when they are picked there is a wasp larva in it