Tree of life is the almond tree. It's the way the Menorah's design.
The tree of knowledge of good and evil is the fig tree.
Adam and Eve made girdles of fig leaves because all leaves in their garden withered away except that of the fig tree.
The fig tree is now dead because Jesus' cursed it.
KJVMar 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
Interesting
Almond.
H8247
שׁקד
shâqêd
BDB Definition:
1) almond tree, almonds
1a) almond (the nut)
1b) almond-tree
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong's Number: from H8245
H8245
שׁקד
shâqad
BDB Definition:
1) to wake, watch, awake, be alert
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to keep watch of, be wakeful over
1a2) to be wakeful, wake (as mourner or sufferer)
The menorah has the shape of an almond and olive tree.
YLTGenesis 3
7 and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they are naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles.
YLTJeremiah 24
2 In the one basket are figs very good, like the first-ripe figs, and in the other basket are figs very bad[ra/evil], that are not eaten for badness.
Sources:
1 (http://chestofbooks.com/gardening-horticulture/Florist/Scripture-Illustrations-The-Almond-Tree.html)