Tonight (1/21) the PBS Nature series broadcast a documentary on the life cycle of the African fig tree (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/queenoftrees/)
The film was made highlighting a tree in Kenya. Here are some pictures I took recently of a fig tree in Guinea, across the continent, at the C.E.E.D. in Kinkan. These pictures seem to be of a very similar, if not exactly the same, species as the one on the show. It's an amazingly complicated life-cycle, with a very precise relationship between the fig tree and the wasp. The fruit here are immature. I noticed ants on them, but didn't see any wasps.
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