always check your leaves for a sticky residue or sooty mold. These bugs can be treated with neem oil or insecticidal soap.

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

Banyans start their lives as epiphytes germinated from sticky seeds that ... and is one of only two native ficus species in Florida (ficus citrifolia, the short leaf fig, is the other).