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No, I think the figs themselves are very small, the size of peas.
Apparently they're used to make bangles in India and Sri Lanka. The
tree is
practically of no economic, and of little ornamental, value. Except by
Buddhists, who revere the tree to the extent that when the seeds
spontaneously sprout in the crevices of building and become a nuisance, a
non-Buddhist must be found to remove the offending plant. There is or
was a
tree at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka that was brought as a young plant from
India
in 288 B.C. and was still alive in the late 1960's.

Almost as good as a yew, then. (Except that the red jellystuff round the
seeds is edible, though the seeds themselves are deadly.)

And similar to hawthorns in Ireland, in that a lot of folk don't dare to
remove even the young seedlings for fear of displeasing the little
folk...

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Rusty
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