fig tree

1. Any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus;
   Produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature (synset 112421840)
   is a type of: tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
   subtypes:

   • common fig, common fig tree, ficus carica, fig - Mediterranean tree widely cultivated for its edible fruit
   • ficus aurea, florida strangler fig, golden fig, strangler fig, wild fig - a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas
   • banian, banian tree, banyan, banyan tree, east indian fig tree, ficus bengalensis, indian banyan - East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
   • bo tree, ficus religiosa, peepul, pipal, pipal tree, pipul, sacred fig - fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists
   • assam rubber, ficus elastica, india-rubber fig, india-rubber plant, india-rubber tree, rubber plant - large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant; source of Assam rubber
   • ficus deltoidea, ficus diversifolia, mistletoe fig, mistletoe rubber plant - shrub or small tree often grown as a houseplant having foliage like mistletoe
   • botany bay fig, ficus rubiginosa, little-leaf fig, port jackson fig, rusty rig - Australian tree resembling the banyan often planted for ornament; introduced into South Africa for brushwood
   • 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 cluster of edible but inferior figs on short leafless twigs; the biblical sycamore
   belongs to: ficus, genus ficus - large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees

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