Inside the rounded fruit of a fig tree is a maze of flowers. That is, a fig is not actually a fruit; it is an inflorescence—a cluster of many flowers and seeds contained inside a bulbous stem. Because ...

Bill Muzychko, founder and owner of Bill's Figs in Hunterdon County, will give a talk on "Life Cycle of the Fig Tree" on Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. at the Holcombe Jimison Farmstead Museum. At Bill's Figs, ...

“This is what makes them very special: At any point in time in the tropical forest, there is a fig that has fruit.” German photographer Christian Ziegler, a tropical biologist by training who lives on ...

A booming market has specimen hunters tracking down rare new varieties of the ancient fruit By Jacob Roberts Photographs by Christie Hemm Klok David and Priscilla Burke's daughter Aoibheann with a ...