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The upside: two biblically prolific wild fig trees throwing off bushel after bushel of sweet and flavorful tiny yellow figs that we turned into salads, pizzas, sandwiches, sauces and ice creams.

A fruit bat gave a high pinging cry as it left the branches of a wild fig.

There are roses and honeysuckles, wild figs and acacias; over all of which a thick cordage of various creepers twines in clusters.

Charybdis’ den lay under a rock crowned with a single wild fig tree; and three times daily she ingulfed the surrounding waters, drawing even large galleys into her capacious jaws.

So again they camped in the open, under a solitary wild fig tree, and the rain held off.