Abstract The typification of the name of the Linnaean sycomore fig Ficus sycomorus subsp. sycomorus (Moraceae) is discussed. The name is lectotypified using an original illustration from Mattioli’s De ...

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Banyan trees are fig trees that begin their life as an epiphyte. The most noticeable feature of banyan Ficus species is their extraordinary aerial roots, which enable them to live as hemi-epiphytes, ...

In Ancient Egypt, several types of trees appear in Egyptian mythology and art, although the hieroglyph written to signify a tree appears to represent the sycamore fig (ficus sycomorus) of the Garden ...

THE accompanying sketch represents an instrument used in Egypt for removing the “eye” or top of the sycomore fig. It is a piece of hoop iron, blunt on one edge and tolerably sharp on the other, and ...

- thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless ...

They may only be 1.5mm in size, but the tiny wasps that pollinate fig trees can travel over 160km in less than 48 hours, according to research from scientists at the University of Leeds. The fig wasps ...