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  • The humid valleys and guelta banks have Sudanian riverine vegetation: Tamarix gallica, and some Ficus sycomorus, Acacia nilotica, Salvadora persica and Hyphaene thebaica.

    Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria 2008

  • They include riverine woodland (Ficus sycomorus, Acacia xanthophloea); mixed Acacia closed woodland (A. tortilis, A. nilotica); broad-leaved woodland (Combretum molle, Zizphus mucronata) and Terminalia sericea - Strychnos woodland and scrub.

    Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa 2008

  • Summit plateaus are covered by grassland and scattered trees of Ficus vasta, F. sycomorus and patches of evergreen thicket.

    Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert 2007

  • Ficus sycomorus L. Moraceae syn: F. mucosa sensu Dale & Greenway 1961

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Planks are cut from the buttress roots of F. sycomorus.

    Chapter 6 1994

  • These include F. auriculata, F. capensis, F. cunia, F. padifolia, F. palmata, F. pumila and F. sycomorus.

    Chapter 6 1994

  • More properly sycomore (Heb. shikmoth and shikmim, Gr. sycomoros), a tree which in its general character resembles the fig-tree, while its leaves resemble those of the mulberry; hence it is called the fig-mulberry (Ficus sycomorus).

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • The scientists mapped all the African fig trees (Ficus sycomorus) along 250km of the Ugab River valley in the Namib Desert.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • & MeyerEuclea divinorum HiernFicus sycomorus L. Ficus thonningii Bl. Flacourtia indica (Burm. f.)

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Bark, leaves and twigs of F. sycomorus are consumed by elephants (Lamprey et al.,

    Chapter 6 1994

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