ABOVE: An immature male Ficus uncinata fig fruit in cross section photographed at the Borneo Highlands Golf Resort, Gunung Penrissen, Padawan, Kuching, Sarawak.
All fig photos are of the same plant taken by Astrid Cruaud and Jean-Yves Rasplus on 14 February 2011.
The green circles on the photo above circle the immature male flowers (anthers and stamens) indicating that the whole plant is male. The numerous white globes are the immature gall flowers which act as brood chambers for pollinating fig wasps.
The varied size of the male fig fruits in this photo indicates that on this plant they do not ripen simultaneously but ripen single in sequence (steady state) rather than in one big bang. Male figs usually expand in size as they ripen so the fig fruit upper right appears to be almost “ripe” ready to release its crop of fig wasps.
The buildings at the Borneo Highlands Resort include a Golf Club House and a Buddhist Retreat Hotel.View from the hotel towards the Bungoh Range of limestone hills at Padawan near Kuching.View from the highest point of the golf course towards the hills of Gunung Niut in West Kalimantan. The Borneo Highlands Resort is right next to the Sarawak-Kalimantan border.
