FIg tree?

My friend moved into a house which has a fig tree in the back yard. She says that it has always had some sort of fruit since she moved in in the spring last year. I saw it on the weekend and it does have some kind of fruit even in January in Canada. Somebody told me that fig trees get fruit and then a seed pod. Does anyone know when the seed pods grow and haow to tell the difference? I have permission to have some pods when i find out. I would like to know more please.
Thanks
Nick

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Figs are strange beasts. I believe the edible figs do carry seeds, and quite a few. Aren't those the ground-up crunchy bits in the Fig Newton?

Here may be more than you want to know about the strange romantic lives of figs:

http://home.earthlink.net/~raygivan/figsex.html

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NM,
Some of the edible figs fruit ripen very late in the season and hold their fruit for a long time. What you see is basically a seed pod full of delicious necter and a bunch of tiny tiny seeds.
This type of tree is not exactly beginner bonsai material. If you really want a fig an air layer of a decent size branch will get you a better specimin to work on. But you are still talking 3 to 5 years before a pottable bonsai will be acheived. Very slow to develope.

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