Fig tree has a center role in the life in Israel. The tree is found scattered widely among the country’s mountains. The fig was one of the principal fruits of the land of Canaan, even before the entrance of the Hebrews into the Promised Land (Num. 13: 23).
There are many references to it
in the various literature of Israeli culture.
The first tree referred to in the Bible is the Tree of life and the second Tree is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. But we do not know what kind of trees these were.
The third tree is specified as a fig tree. Adam and Eve, after eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge, made a covering around their waste with fig leaves to cover their nakedness.(Genesis 3:7).