Fiddle-Leaf Fig Supply Dwindling after Hurricane Irma Decimates Crop

The end times have possibly arrived for Instagram’s favorite plant

Kristin Hanes
The Bold Italic
Published in
3 min readOct 27, 2017

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Photo courtesy of Twenty20 / Katie M.

If the fiddle-leaf fig tree has you saying “fiddle dee-dee,” you obviously aren’t on top of the latest trend in plant fashion. But plenty of San Franciscans are obsessed with the Ficus lyrata, and sales of this fashionable plant are going…

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