In Ancient Egypt, several types of trees appear in Egyptian mythology and art, although the hieroglyph written to signify a tree appears to represent the sycamore fig (ficus sycomorus) of the Garden ...

- 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 ...

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 ...