Sycamore fig
Ficus sycomorus L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 20 m
- wide
- —
Moraceae
Also called Sycomore fig, Common Cluster Fig, Sycomore
Formerly Ficus chanas, Ficus cocculifolia, Ficus comorensis, Ficus damarensis, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Africa to Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 20 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- N'savu, motshaba, Muchaba
- Hebrew
- פיקוס השיקמה, שקמה
- French
- Figuier sycomore
- Estonian
- sükomoor-viigipuu, sükomooripuu
- Finnish
- sykomoriviikuna
- Japanese
- イチジクグワ, エジプトイチジク
- Dutch
- Wilde vijgenboom, Egyptische vijgenboom
- Afrikaans
- Gewone Trosvyeboom
- Thai
- มะเดื่อฟาโรห์
- Greek
- Συκομουριά
- Russian
- Сикомор, Библейская смоковница
- Chinese (China)
- 西克莫无花果, 埃及无花果
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ficus sycomorus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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