SYCAMORE FIG

the fruit of a large, tropical shade-tree, with mmlberry-style leaves, famed in ancient writings and mythology, and still a favorite along the roads and around the houses of modern Egypt and Syria. The tree is of the same genus as the ordinary fig, and its fruit—borne abundantly in loose clusters and (locally) an important food supply—is similar in character and appearance, though greatly inferior in quality and generally small. When fresh it is of various shapes and colors, compre ed to pear-shaped, pink, pale yellow, ete. The Encyclopedia of Food — T **T**