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In culture, a "fig leaf" or "fig-leaf" is a literal or figurative method of obscuring an act or object considered embarrassing or distasteful with something of innocuous appearance. The use of an actual fig leaf for the purpose originates in Western painting and sculpture , where leaves would be used by the artist themselves or by later censors ...
Fig leaf or figleaf may also refer to: Arts and entertainment. The Fig Leaves Are Falling, a 1969 musical; Fig Leaves, a 1926 American silent comedy film; Wildlife
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May 8—MORGANTOWN — A crowd of onlookers filled Morgantown City Hall's foyer and spilled out onto Spruce Street Tuesday evening as the city commemorated the reopening of the historic municipal ...
Its leaves resemble fig leaves, hence its Latin species name ficifolia, which means fig leaf. The plant is monoecious with imperfect flowers (meaning its flowers are either male or female but both sexes can be found on the same plant) and are pollinated by insects, especially bees. The color of the flowers is yellow to orange.
Chenopodium ficifolium, the fig-leaved goosefoot or figleaf goosefoot, is a plant species in the family Amaranthaceae originally native to the Irano-Turanian floristic region. [2] It an archaeophyte weed in Europe and can now be found in temperate crop-growing regions in most of the world.
The fruit is a green fig 2.5–3 cm (1-¼ in) diameter. Ficus lyrata Warb. (known as fiddle-leaf fig) is an evergreen tree or shrub, native to West and Central Africa tropical rain forest, being one of the most demanding and showy Ficus species. It is known as a decorative species in Europe and North America (Florida) as well.
They are dark green above and lighter with prominent yellow veins below, and both surfaces are rough to the touch. The petiole is 0.5–3 cm long and pubescent. The fruit is a large edible fig, 2–3 cm in diameter, ripening from buff-green to yellow or red. They are borne in thick clusters on long branchlets or the leaf axil.