Meet The 550-Year-Old Tree That Is A ‘Living Coffin’ And Is The Size Of 4 Football Fields
Thimmamma Marrimanu is a banyan tree that has survived multiple cyclones and persevered to witness half a millennium of human ...
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Should we be afraid of strangler figs? 😨
By Agnès Schermann Legionnet, Lecturer, University of Rennes While we are increasingly understanding the many cooperative relationships that can exist between plants, in the jungle, one ...
Strangler figs prefer large host trees, study finds
They found 13 strangler fig species (319 individuals) widely colonized 67 host species. Among them, palm hosts accounted for ...
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Beyond Machu Picchu — exploring the real last city of the Incas
Colossal strangler figs have taken root atop ruined doorways. Crumbling yellow paint coats the walls. Decades after the conquistadors landed in Peru, four Inca emperors held out here, stirring up ...
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Should we be afraid of strangler figs?
Example of a strangler fig in Kerala, India. L. Shyamal/Wikimedia, CC BY If you have a friendly Ficus benjamina at home, you may not know that in the jungle, this species can be a formidable ...