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Fig growth log

It's hard to keep track of growth and change, in plants just as in people and places. Just look at the fig (Ficus carica) volunteer Phil Gigliotti brought to our Detroit Zoo Adopt-a-Garden. Such changes in five years!

Summer, 2011

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April, 2013 and November, 2013

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