The banyan is a kind of strangler fig tree, and unlike most plants, which grow from the ground up, it thrives when it grows from the sky down. The seed catches in the branches of another tree and ...

With luck, the twig will grow into a clone of the tree in the silo, and produce more of the same delicious fruit. Even for someone like Burke, who has tasted more than his share of figs ...

More good news from California City! Last summer a Cal City resident, Brenda Spears, donated her 10-foot-tall Fiddle Leaf Fig ...