According to the Jiangsu public news channel "News 360" reported: autumn seasonal fruit - figs are currently on the market in large quantities, speaking of figs, there has always been a cold knowledge widely disseminated on the Internet. It's that every fig has a little bee inside. Sounds a bit scary, so, is it true?
In every fig there is a small bee. Even the famous fruit shell network has published a popular science article "You think that the fig is a fruit, it may be a big gall!" As a fig plant, the fig co-evolved with a pollinator "fig wasp" with a length of only 1 mm, and after the fig developed, it became the "delivery room" of the wasp, which is the so-called "gall flower". Biting open the fig, there is indeed a bit of "dense fear" inside, eating figs, is it really possible to eat meat?
The reporter visited a fig base in Nanjing, and Li Zhengfa, who has been planting figs for seven years, said that he had never met the so-called "fig bee".
Li Zhengfa told reporters that he has never seen small bees to pollinate, and in March and April of each year, the staff cut off the old branches, so that the new branches are sent and the fruit quality is better. The results were in May, and the normal July was listed. There are figs in each leaf, which bear out like buds, and the flowers are all inside the figs, and only when they are ripe can they be seen when they are eaten.
So, what is the story of the little bees hidden in the figs circulating on the Internet? Wang Liangju of the College of Horticulture of Nanjing Agricultural University introduced that figs are divided into wild type, honey milk type, intermediate type and ordinary type.
Professor Wang Liangju of the College of Horticulture of Nanjing Agricultural University introduced that half of the wild type, honey milk type and intermediate type need fig bees to pollinate, and these figs need to be pollinated and fertilized before the fruit can develop. But most of our domestic figs are ordinary figs, which do not require pollination and insemination to produce this fruit automatically. Its fruit is called the hidden head inflorescence, and all the flowers and fruits are in the inflorescence, and there are three thousand to four thousand flowers in a fig.
Professor Wang introduced that many of the commercially cultivated figs are unisexual and fruity, and there is no need for pollination of fig bees. Therefore, there is no need for everyone to be intimidated by the online statements. Soft and sweet figs contain protein, crude fiber, vitamins and other nutrients, which have been cultivated more and more in Jiangsu in the past two years and have become the new favorite of farm picking.
Professor Wang Liangju said that the really delicious figs are on the tree, and after the roots are soft, the place where the fruit holes have a little sugar water falls, and a little honey falls down, which is the best to eat. If you want to eat really good figs, you must go to the orchard to pick, pick them and put them for a few days, this fig is about 80% to 90% ripe, and some will be processed into fig slices, fruit tea, fruit wine, and some places make figs into mooncake filling.
Jiangsu TV reporter / Zheng Lili Wang Miaojun Editor / Hu Chao
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