Ornamental figs (also known as rubber trees) make wonderfully ornamental indoor plants, especially the more unusual ones such as the variegate rubber tree (Ficus elastica ‘Ruby’), which has pink tones ...

Even if you don’t grow edible fruits, it’s likely you’ve grown some sort of ornamental fig. They range from creeping vines to majestic trees, most of them tropical, in which case they can make ...

The State of California’s relationship with figs started in San Diego. When the Franciscans founded California’s first mission at San Diego de Alcala, they planted the state’s first fig tree in the ...

Fig trees, Ficus carica, are part of the huge Ficus genus which includes around 850 different species. There are thousands of different cultivars around the world. The fig originated in the Middle ...