Three years ago, Amazon.com’s horticulturalist was giving Jeff Bezos a preview of what the company’s three plant-filled spheres-the centerpiece of its $4 billion downtown Seattle office project-would ...

Scientists investigated pollinator wasps (Pleistodontes imperialis) and an Australian species of fig (Ficus rubiginosa). The wasps and figs are mutualistic — they cooperate, with each profiting from ...

A 48-year-old tree, sent by truck from a Southern California farm two weeks ago, has a new home inside the Spheres on Amazon’s downtown Seattle campus. The 55-foot-tall Ficus rubiginosa — the largest ...

A 55-foot-tall Ficus rubiginosa tree nicknamed Rubi arrived in Seattle earlier this month and was craned into the new Amazon.com Spheres building in downtown Seattle on Tuesday. Five other trees will ...

A 55-foot-tall Ficus rubiginosa tree nicknamed Rubi arrived in Seattle earlier this month and was craned into the new Amazon.com Spheres building in downtown Seattle on Tuesday. Five other trees will ...

Amazon’s three plant-filled spheres will open in its $4B downtown Seattle office Monday after seven years of planning and construction. The spheres are filled with 40,000 mature plants from around the ...

Biologist David Mackay got a surprise when he began studying the birds visiting fig trees in his native Australia: While he expected to see plenty of species coming to eat the figs, he didn’t expect ...

Now there's certainly no prizes for guessing what these aerial roots and buttress roots belong to. This is Ficus macrophylla, the Moreton Bay fig and this particular tree is probably one of the oldest ...

AREN’T YOU EVEN a tiny bit curious about the green world inside The Spheres, those giant bubblelike structures in downtown Seattle? I was agog when Ron Gagliardo, Amazon senior horticulture manager, ...

The top of "Rubi," a 55-foot-tall Ficus rubiginosa, at the Amazon Spheres in Seattle. Three years ago, Amazon.com's horticulturalist was giving Jeff Bezos a preview of what the company's three ...