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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis), India’s national tree, is a fig plant that begins life as an epiphyte. An epiphyte is a plant that grows on another plant (like orchids), when its seed germinates ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Fraser Coast. Followed categories will be added to My News. The project includes reducing the canopy by 600sqm, removing branch brace supports, and installing ...

For generations, the banyan tree along Lahaina town’s historic Front Street served as a gathering place, its leafy branches unfurling majestically to give shade from the sun. By most accounts, the ...

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 ...

(NEXSTAR) – A wildfire has caused sheer devastation in Hawaii’s Lahaina Town, and the fate of what is believed to be the largest banyan tree in the United States has been left uncertain. According to ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- 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 ...

For generations, the banyan tree along Lahaina town's historic Front Street served as a gathering place, its leafy branches unfurling majestically to give shade from the Hawaiian sun. By most accounts ...