stackyFACTSFig cultivation is wildly unusual since the fruit is technically an inverted flower. Ancient Middle Eastern farmers selectively grew these oddities, blissfully ignoring the complex, slightly unsettling biological reality that the entire fruiting process deeply relies on specific tiny insects.
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