Fresh fig season is short, so don't miss out! Here's how to eat figs raw and the best ways to cook them for fig recipes.

The Peepal tree is famously known as the Bodhi Tree. Learn why the Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa), or Peepal, is called the ...

The life of the fig wasp is nature at its worst—from our human perspective, anyway. In order to lay their eggs, female fig wasps have to squeeze into the flowering body of a fig, losing their wings ...

Figs are vegan despite fig wasps aiding in pollination, as enzymes break down the wasps, leaving no trace. Figs provide health benefits such as better digestion, weight control, improved skin health, ...

Jaco Greeff received funding from the National Research Foundation. Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and therefore the NRF ...

One of the most popular houseplants today is the fiddle leaf fig (Ficus lyrata). Yet this arboreal gem is also a candidate for outdoor growing. You would not know this from looking at the climate ...

UPPER POTTSGROVE TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- The 2nd annual Pennsylvania Fig Festival featured fanatics of the famous fruit from across the state and beyond. Guests were greeted by growers of fig ...

DEAR NEIL: Attached are photos of my Celeste fig which was planted in fall 2021. It is on the east side of my shed. The plant receives shade for a couple of hours very early in the morning, but then ...

University of Maryland Biology Professor Carlos Machado studies the extraordinary partnership between figs and their tiny pollinators—and what happens when some evolutionary partners turn into ...