Every year the National Garden Bureau selects one perennial, one annual, one bulb, one houseplant, one shrub, and one edible, ...

One of the mystery plants for this week was a series of trees with large roots on the ground and around buildings. There was a lot of interest in the plants, with quite a few guesses. While there were ...

Most gardeners are familiar with just a few kinds of fig plants, classified botanically as Ficus. But Ficus is a genus of 800 species of trees, shrubs and vines mostly native to India, Africa and ...

Title also in Japanese: Yūyō shokubutsugaku jō yori mitaru ichijikuzoku no fugakutei kenkyū. Prefatory matter also in Japanese.

If you’re like some of the Newscripts gang, you might have brightened your home with some new houseplants—or, let’s face it, several of them—during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Some of the most popular, in ...

The mention of ‘Ficus' will bring to everybody's mind, the Banyan Tree in all its magnificence displayed through its spread, crown, foliage and ever burgeoning prop roots. Also many more know the ...

GUANGZHOU, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Guangzhou International Ficus Research Center was established in the southern Chinese metropolis of Guangzhou on Monday, offering a platform for global research ...

Folks who read this column regularly know I'm fond of Ficus, a genus composed of 800 or so tropical and subtropical species ranging from vines to massive trees. Among the most decorative of the Ficus ...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going indoors, especially during heat waves. If you are like me, the heat is really taking a toll on your gardening activities this summer. I garden because I ...

Recursive adaptations and counter-adaptations of plant-feeding insects are thought to have driven chemical and physical diversity in plant defenses. Among existing theories on defensive diversity, the ...

The deadly botryosphaeria fungus has infected more than 25 percent of Los Angeles County’s ficus trees, the L.A. County Agricultural Commissioner’s office said this week. The fungus is airborne and ...