Tens of thousands of mature street trees in Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speeds and threatens to destroy the urban forest in older cities ...

The banyan fig tree Ficus microcarpa is famous for its aerial roots, which sprout from branches and eventually reach the soil. The tree also has a unique relationship with a wasp that has coevolved ...

More than 1,600 mature street trees in Long Beach and tens of thousands throughout Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speed and threatens to ...

Claim: Ficus trees that were to be uprooted and transplanted in Mosta are an alien and invasive species. Verdict: Ficus microcarpa is listed as an alien species within an ERA annex but not in the ...

A tree falls in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighborhood, but the question is not whether it makes a sound. The question is what can be done to keep such trees from sending splayed branches into busy ...

Host specificity tests on Gynaikothrips ficorum (Marchal) and Gynaikothrips uzeli (Zimmerman) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) have shown that under experimental conditions, G. ficorum will induce leaf ...