Abstract The typification of the name of the Linnaean sycomore fig Ficus sycomorus subsp. sycomorus (Moraceae) is discussed. The name is lectotypified using an original illustration from Mattioli’s De ...

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- 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 ...

They may only be 1.5mm in size, but the tiny wasps that pollinate fig trees can travel over 160km in less than 48 hours, according to research from scientists at the University of Leeds. The fig wasps ...