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Seedless figs

You might find this fig interesting. It doesn't have one single seed.

Have you seen any fig like it? 

No , but interesting for people that suffer from Diverticulosis !!

You mean no crunch, like eating a banana but different taste!!
It does not mean I would not like it.
Is every fig on this variety of plant seedless like this one or just happens occasionally by chance ?

slightly off-topic, but my neighbor has diverticulosis.  his doctor has performed hundreds of resections of bowel on diverticulosis patients, and he says that - even with the hundreds of hunks of digestive tract he has removed - he has yet to see any evidence there is any truth to the old belief that fruits with seeds are bad for people with diverticulosis.  he told my neighbor to eat whatever he wants; he believes the bit about seeded fruits + diverticulosis being "bad" is an old wives tale.

Thanks Jason.
I like sesame seeds and poppy seeds on bagels, a lot of it. Actually I mix some more with margarine and spread on the bagel.
Now I can have them without feeling guilty.

hi bass

did you already got fruits from your "mary lane"? can you compare them?

I magnified that picture in photoshop.
You can see the seeds. The outer casing is opaque and you can see the seed in middle of it. There are enough of them to tell they are seeds but not to the naked eye.
Perhaps the seeds are or never would develop enough to see them with ones eyes.
I cannot post picture of it because size is to big here.

I can't compare it with Marylane, but this is a fig that I collected from the wild and the tree was loaded with figs. Only very few figs on the tree had seeds that were crunchy, but most of it didn't have any seeds. It had a very soft texture  that was very sweet and still flavorful. The seeded one seemed to be the ones that were pollinated by the fig wasp. 

Martin, there probably was some unformed seeds in there but was very hard to tell. 
This was a very unique fig that I decided to collect it. 

Very interesting Bass.  Very interesting indeed.  I just got an email of a coworker.  He said he place some fig cuttings on my desk at work.  He said the cuttings came from his next door neighbour.  The tree is a semi-seedless Greek fig.  Can't wait till next year to see how the cuttings grow.

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