Among the most popular fig trees to cultivate indoors is the fiddle leaf fig (ficus lyrata). The unique-looking houseplant has large, structured evergreen leaves that add a touch of drama to your ...
Gardeners living in USDA Hardiness Zones 8 to 10 can grow figs of all varieties outdoors. Lucky! The rest of us ficus family ...
San Diego has the perfect set of environmental conditions for fig trees to thrive. Gardeners who want a fig tree in their ...
Figs, also known as Ficus Carica, offer various health benefits, including promoting healthy skin, aiding digestion, reducing high blood pressure, and more.
Keep the room temperatures no cooler than about 15 C or the plant will go dormant. Ficus can be susceptible to spider mite — ...
Scattered fig (Ficus spp. Moraceae) trees are critically important for biodiversity conservation in tropical rural landscapes. By providing large fruit crops, they help maintain seed dispersal ...
Wasps use figs as breeding safe havens, pollinating their fruit shelters in return. Some wasps, however, solipsistically use their figs without fertilizing any seeds. Amid cuts to federal funding, US ...
The logo of the South Asia Centre is a leaf from the Sacred Fig tree (Ficus religiosa), known popularly across South Asia as the ‘Pipal’, ‘Bodhi’ and ‘Ashvattha’ tree. It symbolises at once social, ...