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Re:What a fig is. by larsr on Monday September 13, 2010 @01:17AM (#1685643)
Most of the commercial figs grown in California are wasp pollinated. If a fig is crunchy, it contains seeds, and if it contains seeds, the flowers inside it were likely pollinated by at least one wasp.

Here is a great article with more details :)

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/pljune99.htm

Re:What a fig is. by acqq on Monday September 13, 2010 @03:47AM (#1685886)
Luckily the wasps are not the wasps most people think of, from the article: "The tiny wasps are only two millimeters long."