A unique art of nature

Some people believe that figs become non-veg from vegetable. The reason behind this is its pollination process. Pollination of figs depends on a type of small wasp. The fig fruit has a small hole through which wasps enter the fig. Fig flowers are inside the fig fruit, so wasps have to go inside the fruit to pollinate them.

Such a process occurs within Fig.

Male and female wasps reproduce after entering the fruit. The female wasp lays eggs inside the fruit. After that, the wasp tries to get out of the fruit by covering its body with the pollen of the fig flower for the purpose of pollination. The male wasp helps the female wasp out of the fruit, but they are not always successful. Often the female wasp comes out, but the male one dies inside. Therefore, both males and females often die inside the fruit, leaving the wasp's work of pollination incomplete.

In this way the fruit becomes 'non-veg'.

An enzyme called physin in figs dissolves the dead wasp body and mixes it into the pulp of the fruit. In this way the dead body of the wasp becomes a part of the fruit itself. Larvae emerge from the eggs laid by wasps and take the form of wasps. It also tries to get out of the fruit. If it can be removed then it is fine, otherwise it dies inside the fruit and gets absorbed into the fig like its original.

Strict vegetarians do not eat figs

After the fig fruit is ripe, it is dried and made into dry fruit. That's why some people consider figs as non-veg fruit. That is why many strict vegetarians do not eat figs, while some people consider the entire process of pollination of figs to be natural and do not consider the fruit non-veg.