Strangler Figs

You can’t help but pause in your tracks when you first encounter a mature strangler fig. Its intricate lattice-fused roots, the way it rises majestically above the rest of the canopy. Each tree has a personality of its own, looking like something out of Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

Surprisingly, this tree to the right is 12 feet in diameter! When a strangler fig fruits, there can be 100,000-500,000 fruits! Below is one of the figs…it is 1” in diameter. The three small holes, center/right, are the escape holes made by the male fig wasp for the female fig wasp to then leave by after they hatch.

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