[Avodah] Birkat HaIlanot

[Shoshana L. Boublil]

From: Gershon Dubin [mailto:gershon.dubin at juno.com] 
>> Fig Blossoms
>> *	Fig trees do not bloom like other fruit trees that have highly
>> visible blossoms. While fig trees do produce flowers, they are very small,
>> and enclosed in a structure called the synconium. The synconium is green and
>> resembles a small fig in shape.
...
> That is apparently contradicted by Chavakuk 3:17

I'm not sure what you are trying to say.

For a picture of the fig "blossoms": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_fig
(halfway down the page).

These "blossoms" appear mostly in the Nissan (though they may appear shortly
before and/or afterwards).

The research I did was to check blossoming dates in Israel for the various
trees.  For the Shiv'at HaMinim the highest concentration of blossoming is
around Nissan.

The pasuk in Chavakuk talks of a time when 7 haminim do not blossom - they
do not have fruits.

Shoshana