Gardening • Education • Plants on Instagram: "FYI - NOT every single variety is pollinated this way! Commercial figs can be sprayed with hormones to ripen, and the common fig doesn't require the wasp for pollination. Figs have one of the most wild stories as far as how some varieties get pollinated! It's an example of a mutualistic relationship between a fig wasp and the fig tree. In fact, different species of fig wasps specifically pollinate different varieties of figs! Nevertheless, it's a t
