Its windows look out on the banyan, but an uninformed visitor ... and curse anyone who removes its leaves. Even birds are said to revere the tree by not sleeping in its branches.

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

The green leaves, it gives it hope.” The daily deluge has not only been good for the banyan, but also the papaya, tomato and lilikoi plants below. Griffith says the tree’s rebound is a fitting ...

Move over fiddle leaf fig, there’s a new trendy ficus in town Reviewed by Barbara GilletteA close relative of the fiddle leaf fig, ficus Audrey is easier to grow and care for indoors and has a similar ...

The hydrodynamically efficient shape of banyan tree leaves influenced the design of a better water-dispatching roof shingle, while water divertment systems were inspired by the ways harvester ants ...

banyan, ficus aurea ... to have been “strangled”, hence the name strangler fig. The dead host tree often leaves the fig with a hollow trunk when it decomposes, providing more nutrients ...