Jason Sharp;
Fort De Soto, Pinellas County, Florida
The family and I went on a trip to Santa Barbara for a getaway weekend. We had finished eating some dinner and were finding our way back to our hotel when drove past this gigantic tree. It was too late and the kid was asleep so we promised to venture back the next day. I remember seeing a episode of "California's Gold" with Huell Howser and he had visited this tree, but I had forgotten all about it until we happen to pass by. We returned the next day to check out this massive tree. It was truly a piece of California's Gold, wow.
Ficus (pronounced /ˈfaɪkəs/) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes, and hemiepiphyte in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone. The so-called Common Fig (F. carica) is a temperate species from the Middle East and eastern Europe (mostly Ukraine), which has been widely cultivated from ancient times for its fruit, also...
