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The fig fruit develops as a hollow, fleshy structure called the syconium that is lined internally with numerous unisexual flowers. The tiny flowers bloom inside this cup-like structure. Although commonly called a fruit, the syconium is botanically an infructescence, a type of multiple fruit. The small fig flowers and later small single-seeded ...
The Middle English name had several spellings, including ffygey, fygeye, fygee, figge, and figee. [6] [7] [8] The latter is a 15th-century conflation with a French dish of fish and curds called figé, meaning "curdled" in Old French. [7] [6] [9] But it too came to mean a "figgy" dish, involving cooked figs, boiled in wine or otherwise. [7]
Ficus (/ ˈ f aɪ k ə s / [2] or / ˈ f iː k ə s / [3] [4]) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone.
Ficus racemosa, the cluster fig, red river fig or gular, [2] is a species of plant in the family Moraceae. It is native to Australia and tropical Asia. It is native to Australia and tropical Asia. It is a fast-growing plant with large, very rough leaves, usually attaining the size of a large shrub, although older specimens can grow quite large ...
Ficus sycomorus, called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry (because the leaves resemble those of the mulberry), sycamore, or sycomore, is a fig species that has been cultivated since ancient times. [ 2 ]
Fig-cakes have historically been used as food in ancient times. The Hebrew Bible mentions the food dveláh (Hebrew: דבילה) in several places: . Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves [of bread], and two bottles of wine... and an hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs (דבלים ), etc. (1 Samuel 25:18) [6]
The fresh fruit of this plant is consumed as food, and has diuretic, laxative and digestive regulating properties. [4] Ficus auriculata is used as fodder in Nepal. It is least resistant to fire, but likes good sunlight. [12] The large leaves, often up to 21 in (533.4 mm) long and 12 in (304.8 mm) wide are used as plates. [6]
Opuntia ficus-indica, the Indian fig opuntia, fig opuntia, or prickly pear, is a species of cactus that has long been a domesticated crop plant grown in agricultural economies throughout arid and semiarid parts of the world. [3] O. ficus-indica is the most widespread and most commercially important cactus.