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unusual facts about Strangler fig


Epidendroideae

Epiphytes are common in some groups of plants, such as ferns, mosses, Strangler figs, lichens, and algae.


Marsabit National Park

On the road south from Mount Marsabit to the rocky plains of Shaba, Michael Palin describes passing extraordinary Strangler figs in the mountain-top forest, a stark contrast to the dusty track below which is lined by low, flat-topped acacias.


see also

F. aurea

Ficus aurea, the Florida strangler fig, golden fig or higuerĂ³n, a tree species native to Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama