Kenyan fig trees can literally turn parts of themselves to stone, using microbes to convert internal crystals into ...

Learn about the ability of some fig trees to store atmospheric carbon dioxide and turn it into stone, a process that could ...

Strangler fig is a fascinating tree and American tropical native in south Florida producing a continuous food crop -- even as it kills its host.

But on a fig tree the flowers themselves are tucked inside an unripe fruit. It’s an inside-out bouquet of up to 10,000 tiny flowers packed in a tight orb. When the wasp eggs hatch, males emerge ...

Higher temperatures make it difficult for fig tree pollinators. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 09 / 220923121659.htm ...

For $100 a tree, an arborist was hired to give the fig trees a boost of nitrogen fertilizer, iron chelate and agricultural gypsum.’Peter and Rissy Nelson are the type of residents that urban ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The common fig (Ficus carica) is a small tree native to southwest Asia ...

The fig is one of the most popular foodstuffs in the forest, and squirrels and black birds were foraging for them in the branches. The animal I sought, however, was in hiding. I picked a fig and ...

When we lived in Little Forest Hills, my husband and I had two-mile route we walked regularly through the neighborhood. Around the corner from our house was a lovely mature fig tree.

[dramatic music] Eventually, the dead tree disintegrates, leaving a hollow shell standing in its place, the adult strangler fig tree. [ominous music] Our Amazon journey has one more secret to give up.

Fresno, California’s Old Fig Garden neighborhood is planning an Arbor Day event with food trucks and tree plantings to replace some old trees hit by drought.