These indoor trees can double as a statement-making interior design element. Katarzyna Bialasiewicz/Getty Images Ficus trees, also known as fig trees, are popularly grown as houseplants to add height ...

SEAL BEACH – Ficus or no ficus? The City Council voted at its last meeting to plant 25 new ficus trees on Main Street, replacing older trees that are not ficus. The goal is to create a uniform canopy ...

The city of Beverly Hills is in the process of cutting down scores of ficus trees to make room for a sidewalk project. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Wendy Klenk never considered herself a ...

All the ficus trees on a three-block stretch of Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier will be ripped out to make way for the construction of a promenade under a city-approved plan. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles ...

Tens of thousands of ficus trees throughout Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speed and threatens to destroy the urban forest in older cities ...

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Tens of thousands of mature street trees in Southern California are susceptible to a new, deadly fungal strain that kills at alarming speeds and threatens to destroy the urban forest in older cities ...

Santa Monica activist Jerry Rubin took to the streets again this week, marching not against the war in Iraq, global warming or pollution, but against what he considers a more immediate threat -- city ...