This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The stately Moreton Bay fig on the 1300 block of Carroll Avenue in the ...

India (Garhwal Himalayas): young shoots eaten in curry for scurvy. This site is provided to Mr. Freedman by Dr. Jules Janick, Emeritus Professor and Former James Troop Distinguished Professor of ...

As legend has it, the story of this tree dates back to the late nineteenth century. An Australian sailor had no money to pay for his drinks in a local bar and instead paid the bartender with a sapling ...

The trees loom five stories over the quiet residential street, their thick, interlocking branches forming a sweeping canopy over handsome, custom houses, their trunk bases as wide as SUVs and their ...

Now there's certainly no prizes for guessing what these aerial roots and buttress roots belong to. This is Ficus macrophylla, the Moreton Bay fig and this particular tree is probably one of the oldest ...

If trees could talk, the celebrated 109-year-old Moreton Bay fig just north of the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park would say, “Welcome back.” Friday, on Arbor Day, the nonprofit group ...

The number of monumental trees of the Municipality of Cagliari present in the Sardinian regional list is enriched, with the addition of three new specimens that bring the total to ten. These are the ...

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