Caprifig

Caprifig [English]: Ficus carica
Caprifigos (Brazil) [Portuguese]: Ficus carica
Caprifoi [Romanian]: Lonicera xylosteum
Caprinella [Italian]: Elymus repens
Caprinella [Italian]: Elymus repens repens
Capriola [Italian]: Cynodon dactylon ...

Some edible varieties (e.g., the Smyrna, among the best) can be pollinated only by the fig wasp (Blastophaga), which passes its larval stage inside the inedible fruit of a wild variety called the caprifig.

Croisic (Cordelia, Gillette, St. John) Only edible caprifig. Fruits very early, only brebas are useful. Fruits pale yellow, small, pulp nearly white, without a lot of character. Tree low, dense, spreading. . For north coast and Pacific Northwest.

Some figs even have two different kinds of trees in the same species; one tree only bear cyconia with short-styled flowers for the wasps to lay eggs in called caprifig.

See also: Figs, Fruits, Ficus, Green, Fig