Strangler fig
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Strangler fig is the common name for a number of tropical and subtropical plant species in the genus Ficus, including those that are commonly known as banyans.
Ficus watkinsiana on Syzygium hemilampra, Australia
A fig seedling with thread-like roots on an unknown host
The trunk of a bald cypress, encircled by fig roots
A strangler fig. The supporting tree, now dead, can also be seen
Michael 'Tarzan' Fomenko
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Michael 'Tarzan' Fomenko, was an eccentric, hermetic Australian bushman who spoke to few people and spent over five decades living mainly outdoors in the rainforests of Far North Queensland, Australia
Strangler fig
…help its support tree survive storms. After many decades spent living outdoors in the rainforests of northern Queensland, Australia, hermetic bushman Michael 'Tarzan' Fomenko (c.1930–2018) settled upon sleeping amidst giant strangler fig roots. On occasions when black snakes, scrub turkeys and goannas were a threat or a…
Dark coniferous Taiga forest near the Sayan Mountains in Siberia
Cane fields and the Paluma Range of Queensland between Ingham and Townsville as seen from the Bruce Highway in July 1984
Looking out to Double Island, from the mainland Queensland coast in 2004
Landscape around Laura, Queensland in 2013