Figs

Ficus carica

Appears in

The Gate Vegetarian Cookbook

By Adrian Daniel and Michael Daniel

Published 2004

About

This is another venerable fruit, steeped in history. It has one of the highest sugar contents of all fruits. Fig trees are of the genus ficus, of the mulberry family, moraceae (and related to both the banyan and breadfruit trees), including the many cultivated varieties of ficus carica - the wild fig, originally from western Asia.

Known as the Tree of Knowledge to the ancients, it is no surprise that the fig’s leaves supplied the solution to the first awareness of modesty in the Garden of Eden, that Buddha meditated to nirvana under a type of fig tree, and that some Central African tribes adhere to the age-old belief that the spirits of their ancestors live in fig trees.

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