The Fig Blooms Within it's Own Fruit

The beauty of allegory is that the intention of the author is not subject to interpretation, it's just hidden.

Why is it that when Adam and Eve are exposed as being naked in the Garden of Eden, they use a "Fig Leaf" to cover themselves? Why not a date leaf or what was certainly common in the middle east at the time, a "palm frawn" ? Why not another kind of leaf? Why a "Fig Leaf".  Why does it say in John 1:48 that Jesus recognizes Nathanael, "when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.” Again why not under an apple tree or a pear tree? 

John “1:48 Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.”

The "fig tree" represents going within.
Why does the bible author use the term "fig trees" and "fig leaves" so often instead of other trees and leaves? What is it about figs? Is there a special lesser-known i.e., hidden, meaning for figs? Having looked up "fig tree" in the dictionary and Wikipeidia.com, I found that the unique characteristic of figs is that they are a fruit tree that does not bloom and produce pretty blossoms on the outside like say, a cherry tree, or an apple tree. The fig tree blossoms on the inside. It blooms within the fruit itself. That's the main difference. So when Jesus tells Nathaniel that he knew him when he was under the fig tree, I think he means that Jesus was able to acknowledge Nathaniel, because Nathaniel was also going within. Jesus is there within yourself. And the way to go within oneself is to close your eyes and meditate. If you are naked,, i.e. insecure, and need to be clothed, i.e. comforted, you need to put on the fig leaf, in other words go within your self. Meditate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_fig: "The flower itself is not visible outwardly, as it blooms inside the infructescence. Although commonly referred to as a fruit, the fig is actually the infructescence or scion of the tree, known as a false fruit or multiple fruit, in which the flowers and seeds are borne. It is a hollow-ended stem containing many flowers. The small orifice (ostiole) visible on the middle of the fruit is a narrow passage, which allows the specialized fig wasp Blastophaga psenes to enter the fruit and pollinate the flower, whereafter the fruit grows seeds. See Ficus: Fig pollination and fig fruit.