A Strangler Fig encompassing its host tree 🌿 In the Daintree Lowland Rainforest, strangler figs create living sculptures, twisting, towering, and shaping the forest around them. Their tangled roots and hollow forms offer a unique glimpse into the complexity of rainforest life. Have you seen a strangler fig? Tell us where! #gondwanarainforesttrust #savethedaintree | Gondwana Rainforest Trust
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THE STRANGLER FIG Perhaps the most famous hemiepiphyte is the towering strangler fig tree which starts life as Strangler Fig, Brazil 1999 a tiny seed in the canopy. The roots grow down to the forest floor where they take root and begin to take nutrients from the soil. Gradually the roots wrap around the host tree, widen, and slowly form a lattice-work that surrounds the host's trunk. The fig's crown grows foliage which soon overshadows the tree. Eventually, the host tree dies leaving the fig wit
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