Mike Shanahan

Mike Shanahan

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.

The head of a sandstone Buddha statue nestled in the roots of a fig tree at a temple in Thailand by Siripatwongpin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43737356

Folktales, Myths

Five Reasons Fig Trees Are Folklore Royalty

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