Staten Island Advance

Fig Fest 2018: Your complete guide to the ficus fruit fete on Staten Island

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It's finally here -- Fig Fest 2018, the Staten Island celebration of all things ficus. Loyalists to this low-key gathering know the event is held on Sept. 15 each year -- rain, ...
The Ledger

A tiny house plant? Or a massive forest giant growing 4 acres wide: That's ficus for ya

Sure, the tallest trees on Earth are coastal redwoods, with one topping out at 380 feet. But the largest trees? They’re ficus trees. The champion ficus (the fig family) is thought to be a specimen ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Fabulous Figs

Jerry looks at the wonderful world of figs and some of the specific plants in this group. The common edible fig (Ficus carica) has been grown for its delicious fruit since about 9,000BC - possibly ...
TreeHugger

Growing and Maintaining Your Fig Tree

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 ...
The Hindu

Where have you seen this fruit?

Ficus racemosa. Common names: cluster fig, goolar (in Hindi) and atti (in Tamil). I painted this, with the plum-headed parakeet, in 2018, for this year’s book Hidden Kingdom — Fantastical Plants of ...