On a recent family photo shoot I took a closer look at a vine climbing around the location. I soon noticed it had large fruit hanging from the ends of some of the branches.
The fruit smelled very much like Magnolia. I plucked one off.
They are sticky
I opened one up to find an amazing garden of tiny inwardly facing flowers in a nest of tendrils!
A secret little world hidden inside.
Ficus pumila (creeping fig or climbing fig)
Interestingly these fig vines require the fig wasp Blastophaga pumilae for pollination, and is fed upon by larvae of the butterfly Marpesia petreus.
God is amazing and he loves you and me!
