Ficus sycomorus, mulberry fig, sycamore, sycamore fig - thick-branched wide-spreading tree of Africa and adjacent southwestern Asia often buttressed with branches rising from near the ground; produces ...

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In Biblical symbolism there is much fig/ficus lore. Adam and Eve covered up with fig leaves and “fig” occurs over 50 times in the Bible, often as a symbol of peace, prosperity, fertility ...

The ficus sycomorus, or sycamore fig, is an ancient tree that has been cultivated in Egypt since the third millennium BC. This tree can grow to reach a height of 20-25 meters, a trunk girth of six ...

The fruit of Ficus sycomorus, or “Egyptian fig,” seems to be invariably infested with the insect Sycophaga crassipes, Westw.; which I am informed by Rev. T. F. Marshall, ...

Severe pruning — a.k.a. "coat racking" — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse.

The Whittier City Council voted on Tuesday night to move forward with razing 83 ficus trees as part of a redesign of its commercial center despite backlash.