Today, the ficus trees stirring the controversy — believed to date to the late 1960s — create a shaded canopy across the avenue. Some of their benefits and drawbacks are on clear display.

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

Talentless Nana Season 2 does not have an official release date, but it will likely be announced in the future. As of the current moment, there is no official announcement regarding the status of ...

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 ...

I think it's safe for the ficus to be in your bedroom or any room in the house. It's likely one of you releases more carbon dioxide than the plant. And yes, NASA studies have shown that plants ...

A row of previously bushy Ficus trees on Barham Boulevard that were inexplicably pruned over the hot weekend has only heightened the frustration of WGA strikers at Universal — especially since ...

Ficus need monthly deep soaking during the hot dry months. Brian Kissinger is director of horticulture at the Desert Botanical Garden. E-mail garden questions to bkissinger@dbg.org.

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