Townsville City Council will remove part of a banyan fig on The Strand as it claims the fig has become a safety risk to the community. The council will remove part of the fig from opposite the old ...

“This is what makes them very special: At any point in time in the tropical forest, there is a fig that has fruit.” German photographer Christian Ziegler, a tropical biologist by training who lives on ...

Question: Two years ago, I planted a "Kadota" fig thinking that it would be a tree. Both growing seasons it died back to the ground completely and sprouted new shoots each spring. The first year it ...