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.

“Ocean Avenue has a lot of ficus trees, and we’ve received complaints about the berries on cars and the sidewalk,” Laguna Beach’s Public Works Director Steve May said. The chemical blocks ...

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 ...

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… ...

Forest restoration is an increasingly important tool to offset and indeed reverse global deforestation rates. One low cost strategy to accelerate forest recovery is conserving scattered native trees ...