These Strangler Fig Trees are so rad looking. "These plants begin life as epiphytes, when their seeds, often bird-dispersed, germinate in crevices atop other trees. These seedlings grow their roots downward and envelope the host tree while also growing upward to reach into the sunlight zone above the canopy.[2][3]
An original support tree can sometimes die, leaving a "columnar tree", central core empty, of the Strangler Fig. Strangler figs can also leave trees hollow"
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here's the fig at my folks' house:
http://blogfullofjelly.blogspot.com/2008/11/strange-rare.html
i love the ones that are hollow in the middle. if you ever go to ringling museum in sarasota, FL you can see a bunch of classical sculptures that used to be freestanding but are now almost completely enveloped by banyans. it's cool to see little stone faces in there :D
i saw those in costa rica and they were awesome, you could climb up inside because the trees inside were gone and they were empty
They are very Lord of The Rings, love 'em.
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