Fig (Engl.)

Large Tree Height: 12-30m Leaves: simlple and entire, ovovate or elliptic, leathery, smooth, glossy, acuminate at the apex (1) Flowers: With special form of inflorescence called syconium or fig (hypanthodia) (4), which is spherical to egg-shaped, shiny green (1). This contains the male and female flowers, wherein a agaonid wasp mediate the pollination ot the female flower. Fruits: The globose or spherical-ovoid figs or fruits in pairs are enclosed in a fleshy sac that turns from green to orange-red to red and then purplish black (3). Inside the figs are ovoid-renifrom achenes, the real botanical fruits (4)