Santa Monica ficus supporters plan to hold a meeting today at 6 p.m. in front of City Hall. For more information, visit www.treesavers.blogspot.com or call (310) 399-1000.-- ...

Severe pruning — a.k.a. "coat racking" — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse.

Question: We have a small back yard (approximately 20 by 60 feet) with two large ash trees. The shade is great, but the roots are growing very shallow and almost reach the house.

Ficus benjamina, also known as weeping fig, has been a mainstay for decades in Palm Be… In a bid to strike back at the whitefly pest, the town is poised to ban all new plantings of Ficus benjamina .

The ‘Ficus' genus has over 750 species, distributed in all over the tropical regions of the world, and it is one of the largest genus among the flowering plants. In the forests of Andhra Pradesh ...

As Ficus benjamina may no longer be planted in Palm Beach, landscapers are now often recommending the clusia species, which many insist are native.. The autograph tree (Clusia rosea) is indeed a ...

A recent study in Ficus hispida genomics has unlocked the genetic mechanisms driving this fig tree's unique reproductive system. The fully sequenced genome, a first of its kind for Ficus, reveals ...