The availability of fresh figs, as opposed to dried ones, has increased lately. From left are a sliced Brown Turkey fig, Brown Turkey fig, Sierra fig, Tiger fig and Black Mission fig. Silvia Flores ...

The fig, Ficus carica, is native to Asia Minor and is thought to be one of the earliest fruit trees cultivated by humans. It belongs to a group of plants that have milky sap, or latex, and includes ...

Learn how to prune fig trees to keep them healthier and more productive. Homegrown figs are a tasty treat and if you live in a climate where they grow well, it's well worth planting one in your yard.

MADERA, Calif. — In gorgeously striped Panachee figs, which are being harvested commercially for the first time this month, the beauty is more than skin deep. Ripe specimens have super-sweet, jam-like ...

When we lived in Little Forest Hills, my husband and I had two-mile route we walked regularly through the neighborhood. Around the corner from our house was a lovely mature fig tree. One day, during ...

It wasn’t so long ago that if you said “fig,” it was almost automatically assumed that you were talking about the dried kind. If you wanted fresh, you practically had to have your own tree. Well, ...

There’s more to the fig than its snackability. Hussain Al-Asaad, associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, teaches a first-year seminar emphasizing the fig ...

Regular pruning is essential to ensure a healthy and productive fig tree. Fig trees (Ficus carica) thrive in USDA hardiness ...