Actually, according to an expert, Dr. Stephen R. Hill, “The silvery-leaf trees are not figs, they are a plant locally called 'bois canon' or 'trumpet wood' with the scientific name Cecropia schreberiana. This tree is related to the figs, and many put it in the same family as Ficus [the figs] - called the Moraceae. I tend to keep them separated out into their own family, the Cecropiaceae. On the mainland they are the primary food of tree sloths [not on Dominica, of course], and they are often called 'canoa' which I often translate as 'canoe tree'. They are mostly hollow on the inside.”