To mark the International Day for Biological Diversity, here’s an infographic I made to highlight how fig trees are so important to life on Earth. Please feel free to use it/share it.
Read more about fig trees in my book Ladders to Heaven (published in North America as Gods, Wasps and Stranglers). For a summary and reviews from Annie Proulx, Deborah Blum, Michael Pollan, Sy Montgomery, Simran Sethi, David George Haskell and others, visit this page.
I read about this and remembered you Mike:
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=108321&sid=4
Thanks Mike – it is good to hear from you. The Hong Kong banyans have been big news there recently. There are some great photos of other fig trees there in this gallery: https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/hong-kongs-banyan-wall-trees-pictures/article/2147535