Thursday, December 12, 2013

Creeping Fig Vine

Wandering Fig Vine

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.

Wandering Fig Vine

The fruit smelled very much like Magnolia. I plucked one off.

Wandering Fig Vine

They are sticky

Wandering Fig Vine

I opened one up to find an amazing garden of tiny inwardly facing flowers in a nest of tendrils!

Wandering Fig Vine

A secret little world hidden inside.

Wandering Fig Vine

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!