Just like fruit ripens when the time is right.

In a way, fire is like the leaves changing color in fall, the smell of fruit as it ripens, or a firefly’s blinking light.

Roughly fifteen days before fertilization can happen, the anterior pituitary gland secretes follicle stimulating hormone, FSH, which ripens a handful of follicles of the ovary that then release estrogen.

This delicious produce from the Torrid Zones ripens all year round, and Malaysians, who give them the name "pisang," eat them without bothering to cook them.

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