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Mike Shanahan is a freelance writer and former rainforest biologist. You can follow him on Twitter, and visit his website. Mike has also written a book about fig trees, published as Ladders to Heaven in the UK and Gods, Wasps and Stranglers in the U.S.

Folktales, Myths

No plants feature so often in folklore, in so many places, as fig trees. There’s a biological basis to many