The fruit is a berry which blackens as it ripens. The fruit gradually ripens to a purplish color. The fruit is a fleshy berry that ripens red. Giving the hormone prostaglandin ripens the cervix, meaning the cervix softens, thins out, or dilates. The fruit is a pome with five carpels; it ripens in late autumn. As it ripens the starch is converted to sugars turning the fruit sweet. The ovary ripens into a three-celled capsule fruit. The fruit ripens prematurely as a result. The fruit ripens during the warm summer months. At first green, the fruit turns yellow then almost white as it ripens. The flower is pentamerous and ripens into an indehiscent fruit with numerous seeds. The fruit ripens in August and early September. However, this fruit can be particularly sweet when it ripens long enough. In such areas, the tree flowers in autumn and the fruit ripens in late winter. When a caprifig ripens, another caprifig must be ready to be pollinated.