Viewing post #1234617 by needrain

Or it's just a matter of perception. When you eat a fig, I think you are eating a flower bud or the flower. The fig doesn't follow after a bloom. I've just learned this, so I may not be entirely clear about it all. I just noticed that my new little fig tree was putting on figs at the leaf joint. No blooming beforehand and asked about it. It's not the same process as a peach or a plum . It may be we all eat more buds and flowers than we know, but they just aren't referred to that way. Like peanuts. Not really a nut, I think. More kin to legumes like a pea than to tree nuts. Or part of the root system of the plant.