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Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Fig is frequently mentioned in Scripture. The fig (Ficus carica) is indigenous to the Middle East; several varieties of the wild fig occur, as well as of those under cultivation. The so-called fruit is a hollow, fleshy receptacle, at first containing a great number of minute flowers lining its cavity, which later produce the true fruits (''seeds "). These figs appear in February before the leaves, which do not cover the tree until a month or six weeks later. When the leaves are fully out, the fruits should be ripe (Matthew 21: 19). Several Hebrew words are used for "figs" teenah (Genesis 3: 7) is the name of the tree; pag (Song of Solomon 2: 13) is the unripened autumn fruit which remains on the tree through the winter (Bethphage, the village near Bethanv, is the "house of green figs'"); bikkurah (Hosea 9: 10) is the first ripe fig; and debelah (1. Samuel 25:18) is the dried figs made into cakes, a staple food in Palestine. There are two species of figs found in the Holy Land, the common fig and the sycomore [q.v.].
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