Who picked the sweet fruit?

Introduction to the author: one-hand brush and one-hand flowers: garden major, love plants and nature since childhood, look forward to always be engaged in plant-related work, only beautiful flowers and delicious food in the world can not be failed, Weibo @ one-hand brush and one-hand flowers

The sweet figs are ripe.

Some fruits do not seem to have anything to do with sour words, such as bananas, such as jackfruit, such as figs; some fruits are very seasonal and difficult to find after the season, such as yellow peel, such as litchi, such as figs.

In the past, a few figs were planted in the courtyard of many old houses. When I was a child, I felt that the whole fig plant had a faint aroma, the kind of fresh and sweet smell that belonged to it alone. Whenever I walked past the fig tree, I liked to stop and smell the shallow smell.

When it began to hang fruit, it counted one by one, looking forward to it every day, hoping that the green fruit would grow up quickly. Watch it bulge up day by day, hang a trace of redness, blush more and more open, and then add purple. I'm not the only one thinking about figs. Unfortunately, I don't know whose belly the ripe fruit got into at last.

Now the newly built community will rarely plant figs. According to my mother, there is an alley called Fig Lane, which used to be full of figs, but now there are no figs.

Fig orchard

The output of figs is not high, and they are not resistant to storage and transportation. In recent years, figs on this market have become more and more expensive, costing about 15 yuan per jin, which may not necessarily be sold. Fortunately, I found a fig orchard, the fruit ripening period, opened this year's feast.

Fig branches are unique, like to be long, the bark is grayish white, and the branches have circular stipule scars with distinctive characteristics of the genus banyan. The alternate leaves are 3 to 5-lobed, some become a slap, the leaves feel rough and there are small villi on the back.

The hole in the cryptic inflorescence of fig.

The hidden head inflorescence is one of the symbols of the genus Ficus of Moraceae. these plants appear to be flowerless on the surface, but in fact, peanuts are hidden in the inner wall of figs, and hidden flowers bloom secretly in their hearts, but only these figs get the name of "no flower". Really delicious is more eye-catching. Some people may wonder how to pollinate when the flowers are hidden. Although they won't let you see the flowers, they have made a hole in the ass, leaving a special passage for insects.

The fruit hanging from the branches is green, red and purple. If it is ripe every day, it will be troublesome to harvest. Pick the fruit, you can see another banyan feature-milk, milky white out, after picking a basket of figs, hands are sticky.

The whole red and purple fruit is the sweetest, with a little green and yellow, and it is delicious to pick and put it for a day or two. Break the fruit, is its beautiful love, pink, lure you to bite down. The other fruits left behind a pile of pericarp seeds, and the figs went into the belly, leaving only the mouth full of sweetness.

If you can not eat fresh figs, there are dried figs can satisfy the craving, but also full of flavor.

When the figs are ripe, who picked the sweet fruit?

Author: one hand paintbrush, the other hand flower

Picture: brush in one hand and flower in the other

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