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Moraceae

25-Fig in longitudinal section

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Ficus carica, edible fig. One ripe fig in longitudinal section. The syconium is a multiple fruit filled with many tiny drupes. Note the white ovaries that have matured into drupes and the small pits inside the drupes. See the drawing on page 102 in your Zomlefer text.

Taken by K. R. Robertson at the University of Massachusetts.

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