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Pollinated or a Mutated?

Hello everybody,
I have this fig tree which I had trouble knowing what variety it is and to make the problem worse it has a branch that produced different figs without any grafting...
the normal figs are yellow and on the small side like these:
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But it had two figs in one small branch that grew last year (Not by much) which had two figs that looked differently. one split, but the other is still trying to ripen for about 3 months. It is larger that the others and has a green colour to it. One of the two split and it had a red interior different from the others (all are main crop), with more seeds which made me think it perhaps got pollinated?
I am new to growing figs (I am new to gardening altogether lol). I do not live in Canada but it is good for size comparison.
Here is the other one:

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This one got split, I am waiting for the other one...
What do you think happened?
To look at more pictures you can go to my ID topic and look at the tree:
http://www.figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/help-id-this-syrian-fig-i-got-6969687?pid=1283761667#post1283761667

Speedmaster

If you suspect a given fig, be it dried or fresh , got pollination, to find exactly what happened, do as follows:

- wash the fig pulp with warm water to try and separate the fig seeds.

-once cleaned place the seeds inside a small transparent glass with clean water.

if the seeds float, they are empty, hollow, just a shell - there was no pollination

if the seeds sink, they should have fertile kernels inside, these seeds when planted will root and give new fig trees - A sign that fig pollen somehow (probably with fig wasps) migrated inside the syconium and fertilized the fig female flowers.

Hope this helps.

Francisco

Thank you Francisco! Will do that as soon as the one on the tree ripens. Too bad I threw the split one because it tasted very under ripe and bad lol.
The weird thing both figs are from the same tree...

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