Karen Cooper’s Saturday nuptials with the Indian laurel ficus tree rooted in Snell Family Park in Fort Myers included floral arrangements, a dog serving as ring-bearer, and a wedding cake ...

Some 87 ficus trees, also known as Indian laurel figs, will be cut down for a sidewalk restoration project. The city and some business owners blame the majestic trees for leaving messy droppings ...

Recently, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant granted the Robertson Boulevard Special Task Force a preliminary injunction to halt the city from clear-cutting 36 Indian laurel ...

It's hard to believe that such a delightfully robust and luxuriant tree like the Indian laurel, Ficus microcarpa nitida, can be so problematic. It looks so perfect, with lustrous evergreen ...

Indian laurel, Ficus microcarpa, can be damaged or killed when temperatures are in the 20s. Others have recently reported that their trees died after the cold winter.

It's hard to believe that such a delightfully robust and luxuriant tree like the Indian laurel, Ficus microcarpa nitida, can be so problematic. It looks so perfect, with lustrous evergreen ...

Branch dieback disease caused by botryosphaeria fungus already has infected more than 25 percent of the region’s ficus trees, also know as Indian laurel-leaf fig, said Donald Hodel, researcher ...

Except for the tree. The tree is immense, majestic. With its more than 8,000-square-foot canopy, it dominates this small park, upstaging even the river. Like a pantheistic god, this Indian laurel ...

Of Long Beach’s approximately 92,000 street trees, there are 3,147 ficus trees, about half of which are the Indian laurel-leaf fig species, said Art Cox, the city’s street maintenance supervisor.

As it happens, each fig tree is pollinated by its own individual wasp species, and the wasp that pollinates Indian Laurel Fig first showed up in L.A. about 15 years ago. The first seedling identified ...