Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks—essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss ...

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 but ...

Stavros Pando will tell you that the ideal spot to plant a fig tree in New York City is in the corner of a walled-off backyard where the walls serve as buffers from the cold winter winds. But he lives ...