10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPRIFIG»
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caprifig in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
caprifig and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts
The male is first to emerge inside the caprifig synconium and begins to open the
psenocarps and mate with the females still inside. The males rarely leave the
caprifig synconium of origin and die soon after mating is complete. The bred ...
Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull, 2008
2
Diseases of Tropical Fruit Crops
This is common in 'Calimyrna', but not caprifig, fruits. The pulp becomes amber
and is considerably darker than the beige colour of healthy fruit (Fig. 11.7).
Affected 'Calimyrna' fruit will dry and appear healthy if the pulp is not greatly
affected.
3
Fields of Change: Progress in African Archaeobotany
In Ficus carica, the male flowers and short-style female flowers are produced in
syconia on “male” caprifig trees, while the long-style female flowers are produced
in syconia on separate cultivated “female” trees (Smyrna, San Pedro and ...
4
Half-Brain Fables and Figs in Paradise: The 3D Mind
The ficus carica has two forms, the common female fig tree and the male caprifig.
The common fig has no viable male flowers. But it has numerous long-style,
female flowers located inside the syconium, the fleshy receptacle that eventually
...
Jacques M. Chevalier, 2002
Smyrna figs require caprilication (which corresponds to pollination in other fruits)
in order to develop fruit. For this, caprifig trees and the fig insect, or Blast ophafia,
which effects caprification, must be provided. The amateur grower not otherwise ...
6
Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Two Volume Set
It completes three life cycles per year, coinciding with the three caprifig crops (
profichi, mammoni, and mamme). Female adults emerge from each maturing
caprifig crop and enter fruit of the succeeding, overlapping crop. Here they
deposit ...
Marion Eugene Ensminger, Audrey H. Ensminger, 1993
7
Biology of Flowering Plants
It exists in two races, the fig (Ficus carica, domestica) and the caprifig, or goat fig (
Ficus carica, caprificus), which never produces edible fruit. Each bears three
generations of flowers. The wasps pass the winter in the mamme of the caprifig,
and ...
8
Fig culture in California
The most primitive of these, the caprifig, has flowers with short-styled pistils (fig. 1
) ; the other three types (the Smyrna, White San Pedro, and the common) have
flowers with long-styled pistils. Trees of the caprifig type characteristically
produce ...
9
The Oxford Companion to Food
The syconium of the wild caprifig contains both male and female flowers, but
these are un- able to fertilize each other because the female flowers mature
some time before the male flowers produce pollen. Fertilization depends on a tiny
, ...
Alan Davidson, Tom Jaine, 2014
10
Wildlife in the Garden: How to Live in Harmony with Deer, ...
Instead, it crawls inside the fig's wild cousin, the caprifig, which does not produce
good fruit, only what are called gall figs. The males hatch first, chew out of their
respective galls, chew into the galls where the females are hatching, mate, and ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAPRIFIG»
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caprifig is used in the context of the following news items.
Figs remain popular Louisiana fruit
O'Rourke used a variety called caprifig from California as the male parent and the varieties Celeste from Louisiana and Hunt from Georgia as ... «The Franklin Sun, Jun 15»
Gardening: Lesson on types, species of edible figs
Others include the Caprifig (male or goat fig), which is used to pollinate the two other types. Smyrna fig requires pollination, and is often used ... «Maple Ridge News, Apr 13»
The Incredible Edible Fig
The inedible caprifig sports inflorescences with both male and female flowers, the female flowers hosting a nursery of wasp larvae within. «Patch.com, Jun 12»
Spelling Bee Pregame: Why Are Some Words So Hard?
Last year's finalists were stumped by words like fustanella (a skirt worn by men in some Balkan countries, misspelled as "fustinella"), caprifig (a ... «NPR, May 11»
Colorado Springs eighth-grader eliminated in Scripps spelling bee …
King, who goes to Colorado Connections Academy in Englewood, was eliminated by his misspelling of the word "caprifig." Which is a wild fig ... «Colorado Springs Independent, Jun 10»
Figs are a part of Texas homesteads
Alma resulted from a cross between the female Allison and the male Hamma Caprifig. It is a late season variety with very high fruit quality. «The Cherokeean Herald, Apr 09»
