The banyan fig tree Ficus microcarpa is famous for its aerial roots, which sprout from branches and eventually reach the soil. The tree also has a unique relationship with a wasp that has coevolved ...

I have been a tree lover for as long as I can remember. As a child growing up in Miami, Florida, we had a big ficus tree in our front yard that was a favorite for climbing. In my memory it was huge ...

The banyan fig tree Ficus microcarpa is famous for its aerial roots, which sprout from branches and eventually reach the soil. The tree also has a unique relationship with a wasp that has coevolved ...

Banyans start their lives as epiphytes germinated from sticky seeds that lodge in the branches or crevasses of another tree. Banyans can reach 60-80 feet in height with an equal or larger spread. As ...

Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1824), pp. 119-132 (14 pages) ...

The beauty of paying attention to the plants around us is that we are forever discovering something new. Just the other day I was taking a walk down a neighborhood street with whose flora I thought I ...

Some 550 years ago, so a story goes, the poet-sage Kabir was on a silt island in India's Narmada River. He was brushing his teeth with a twig. When he flung his toothbrush to the ground, up sprang a ...

The ficus plants that many people grow indoors are actually tropical trees. They are a different species from Ficus carica, the edible fig. The ficus we eat is from temperate areas of the world and ...