Skip to content viewer section. Scattered fig (Ficus spp. Moraceae) trees are critically important for biodiversity conservation in tropical rural landscapes. By providing large fruit crops, they help ...

The fig is the edible fruit of Ficus carica, a species of small tree in the flowering plant family Moraceae. Native to the Mediterranean and western Asia, it has been cultivated since ancient ...

Figs (Ficus carica) are members of the mulberry family (Moraceae) and grow on small bushes and trees. Native to areas around Asiatic Turkey and northern India, figs were first cultivated in ...