This is a fig growing out of the side of another fig. I have seen this before in a much less complete from where all you see is the scar line on the skin of one fig, where one grew out of the other. I hope it will be ripe in a couple days.



Here is the cut half of a Yellow Neches which has the guitar shape because of one fig expanding out the eye of the first fig. You can see the scar line about half way down the side of the fig.

Jon,
that to me is the picture of the year award for figs the first picture.
The second picture is interesting also ,  did something cause this to happen to either fig or just a fluke of mother nature?
Have you ever experienced either occurence before?

I'll have to find my pix, but I have seen the second style on a few occasions, but this is the first time I have seen the fig grow a stem from the first fig. Usually the second one develops as an extension of the first one, and you just see a scar line, which I think is caused  by the edge of the eye, when the second fig grows out through the eye of the first.

I have no idea of the cause, but I know they have seen the second style at Davis, as well, in the past.

I am sure it is just a "fluke". You seen deformities and miscarriages throughout the plant animal world. They are infrequent, but some very bizarre things do occur every one in a while.

Jon
Maggie ( Italiangirl74 )  sent me this email.

It seems to be two figs in one, there are two eyes!!!  What do you think, maybe you can show these pictures if you want to FFFF along with Jons Post, " Bizarre fig " 
 
 
Here is the better picture of the 3 she sent all the same but this one seem the clearest.
One fig with 2 eyes?

Here is the ripe fruit.

Here are the pix of an Encanto Brown Turkey which I founf today which illustrate the fig-in-a-fig occurence. You can see the scar line where the eye of the first fig was about in the middle of the fig.

This is the way I have seen it before, like the Yellow Neches pictured previously.