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Fig reproduction reportedly involves hidden flowers, tiny pollinators, and occasionally a very committed final resting place. Botanists confirm the fruit aisle has been concealing an entire nursery-pollination arrangement.
Peanuts are legumes with a reproductive trick few crops can match: they flower above ground, then deliberately bury the fertilized ovary so the fruit can develop underground.
Plants have been packaging mature reproductive structures as snacks for millions of years. Botanists have known. The rest of us were apparently not informed.
Flowers that look ordinary to human eyes can display bold ultraviolet patterns to bees, creating hidden visual signals that influence where pollinators visit.