his gigantic-looking tree is a Ficus, also known as a fig. Regarded as Colombia's largest tree, Ficus is allegedly 30 meters high and 75 meters in diameter. Some people in Latin America call it ...

For decades, the giant Moreton Bay fig tree in downtown Ventura has been a stately parasol, ... “That’s the biggest tree I ever saw!” said Nicholas Vik, 11.

Today California is the world’s third-largest fig producer. Cal-IPC rates the tree moderately invasive. Growing fairly fast to 15 to 30 feet tall and at least as wide, ...

The largest fig harvested so far off a tree growing in Jim and Rita Mellito's yard weighed in at 5 and a half ounces. The second biggest was 4 and a half ounces, and the third largest came in at 4.

Fig Heaven: 70 Recipes for the World's Most Luscious Fruit by Marie Simmons Morrow, 176 pp., $19.95 ...

The tree is about 100 miles north of Bangalore, India’s third-largest city, ... The banyan is a kind of strangler fig tree, and unlike most plants, which grow from the ground up, ...