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 ...

Some 550 years ago, so a story goes, the poet-sage Kabir was on a silt island in India's Narmada River. He was brushing his teeth with a twig. When he flung his toothbrush to the ground, up sprang a ...

A lone activist in Amritsar is fighting to save a nearly 200-year-old banyan tree, now slated for felling on a plot within a ...

A banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis), India’s national tree, is a fig plant that begins life as an epiphyte. An epiphyte is a plant that grows on another plant (like orchids), when its seed germinates ...

The tree is out of focus and blurred in the photo. Indistinct pops of emerald green, Hawaiian sun dappled through its leaves. It’s the scene in front of the tree I was trying to immortalize: Daddy ...

For generations, the banyan tree along Lahaina town's historic Front Street served as a gathering place, its leafy branches unfurling majestically to give shade from the Hawaiian sun. By most accounts ...

(NEXSTAR) – A wildfire has caused sheer devastation in Hawaii’s Lahaina Town, and the fate of what is believed to be the largest banyan tree in the United States has been left uncertain. According to ...

We lost a mighty tree in our front yard last winter. It was an ash, and yes, it was already dead — defeated by Michigan’s pernicious emerald ash borer. When it toppled during a windstorm, it brought ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – A wildfire has caused sheer ...