Ficus sycomorus

Related to Ficus sycomorus: sycamore, sycamore fig

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

Ficus sycomorus - 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 twigs; the biblical sycamore

mulberry fig, sycamore fig, sycamore

Ficus, genus Ficus - large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees

fig tree - any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

Tisha (GU) H Ficus vasta Forssk Bowa (GU) T Moraceae Ficus sur Forssk Essa (SH) T Ficus sycomorus L.

Study on the Diversity and Use of Wild Edible Plants in Bullen District Northwest Ethiopia

Ficus sycomorus-Cynodon dactylon RF Habitat Type 2: Species group b's diagnostic and characteristic species are Cynodon dactylon and Ficus sycomorus (Table 1).

FLORISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF RIPARIAN PAN VEGETATION FROM THE NDUMO GAME RESERVE, SOUTH AFRICA

On the other hand the interviewed informants, in the following parenthesis, reported some wild plants with their possible uses as follows: For industry, fuel and windbreaks: Eucalyptus camaldulensis (57%), Tamarix nilotica (55%), Ficus sycomorus (41%), Acacia saligna (19%), Ziziphus spina-christi (17%).

An ethnobotanical uses of plants in the middle area, gaza strip, Palestine

The scientists mapped all the African fig trees (Ficus sycomorus) along 250km of the Ugab River valley in the Namib Desert.

Fig wasps transporting pollen 10 times further than any other insect

Yn wreiddiol roedd yr enw 'sycamore' yn cyfeirio at rywogaeth o'r ffigysbren sydd erbyn hyn yn cael ei galw'n 'ffigysbren sycamorwydden' - y Ficus sycomorus ac mae hon yn tyfu yn Israel.

Dwy farn am y fasarnen; BYD NATUR

On the pollination ecology of Ficus sycomorus in East Africa.

Avispas no polinizadoras asociadas a Ficus andicola (Moraceae) en la Cordillera Central de Colombia

As a matter of fact, sygamour (1278) is probably not the modern 'sycamore' but the Egyptian fig (Ficus sycomorus).