Fig Tree

A fig tree is a Ficus; Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees.

Fig Tree or Figtree may also refer to:

Tree species

• Common fig (Ficus carica), a tree cultivated for its edible fruit
• Curtain fig (Ficus microcarpa), also known as Chinese Banyan, Malayan Banyan, Taiwan Banyan, Indian Laurel
• Moreton Bay fig (Ficus macrophylla), a tree with buttress roots that can reach 60 meters (200 ft) in height
• Rusty fig (Ficus rubiginosa), also known as Port Jackson fig or little-leaf fig
• Weeping fig (Ficus benjamina), also known as Benjamin's fig, and often sold in stores as just ficus

Individual trees

• Charybdis Fig Tree, a mythological fig tree in Homer's Odyssey
• Curtain Fig Tree, one of the largest trees in Tropical North Queensland, Australia
• Moreton Bay Fig Tree (Santa Barbara, California), the largest Ficus macrophylla in the United States

New Testament

• Cursing the fig tree, a miracle of Jesus
• Parable of the barren fig tree, a parable of Jesus found only in the Gospel of Luke
• Parable of the budding fig tree, another parable of Jesus found in all three synoptic Gospels

Places

• Figtree, Saint Kitts and Nevis, a town on the island of Nevis
• Figtree, New South Wales, an inner western suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
• Fig Tree Pocket, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia
• Figtree, California, United States
• Figtree, New South Wales, Australia
• Figtree, Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Figtree, Zimbabwe
• The Fig Tree Lodge, Thohoyandou, South Africa

Other uses

• Fig Tree Bridge, a girder bridge that spans the Lane Cove River in Sydney, Australia
• Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Books
• Figtree (software), graphical phylogenetic tree viewer in Java

See also

• Figtree (disambiguation)
• Fig (disambiguation)
• Figs in the Bible, references to figs and fig trees in the Tanakh and the New Testament