Curtain Fig
Ficus virens

Creation of the Curtain Fig Tree

    The Curtain Fig Tree is of the strangler fig species Ficus virens. Normally these figs germinate on top of another tree and try to grow roots into the ground. Once this important step is accomplished, the fig will grow vigorously, finally kill the hosting tree and then grow on independently. In this case, the hosting tree tilted towards the next one; the fig also grows around that one. Its curtain of aerial roots drops 15 metres (49 feet) to the ground.
    Although these figs kill their hosts, they are an epiphyte which basically feeds from the ground, unlike a parasitic plant which feeds from the sap of the host plant/tree.
                                                                —Wikipedia

Curtain Fig, Curtain Fig NP, Australia		 Curtain Fig, Curtain Fig NP, Australia
Curtain Fig, Curtain Fig NP, Australia

Curtain Fig, Curtain Fig NP, Australia

Curtain Fig
Curtain Fig NP, Australia
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