Calling something the “tree of life” may conjure up a lush arboreal species with mouth-watering fruit. Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first ...

Since she was a child, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet.

Like other fruit trees, they need very specific conditions in order for figs to grow. That isn't to say you can't have a ...

A multitude of new genomic sequence data fills major gaps in the fruit fly tree of life, researchers report. A multitude of new genomic sequence data fills major gaps in the fruit fly tree of life ...