How the fig tree strangles other plants for survival in the rainforest – David Attenborough – BBC wildlife

nice, im gonna plant one at my neighbor’s tree right away

otherwise known as the ‘bastard plant’

Whoa… Imagine camping with no tent and you go to sleep and once you wake up, you find tree roots strangling you O_o

If the fig is so aggressive why isn’t it the only tree in the forest?

fig tree=gangster

at the last one i was like : FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I know a few people like this. lol

a mercy killing??

@fredfar12 Quite easy, often enough. After all, what self-respecting homonid couldn’t climb trees?

i wonder how hard it is to climb that tree with bare hand…

why is being a bully appealing?

No one can ever chop this tree down .

dead tree trunks are not wasted… and?

Figs always creeped me out… now I know why…

anti semetic or what?
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Yo lo ví en Australia, cerca de Atherton, Queensland. Es impresionante porque la higuera primero creció a expensas de un primer árbol huésped y al morir éste, se inclinó a otro árbol vecino y sus raíces quedaron como una “cortina”. Es por eso que se conoce como “curtain fig tree”. Sus raíces alcanzan una altura de 20 metros o más. Es impresionante.

i am skard

Maybe because it takes it rougly 300 years too strangle another tree?

Dead tree trunks are not wasted.

Those look like so much fun to climb!

i know wtf?? me too… just a strip tease….

I did once with a friend in a queensland. The strangler fig had killed the tallest tree in that part of the rainforest and it towered above the rest like a natural skyscraper in a perfect ladder. It was easy to climb but we used rope and harnesses in case we fell because it was a longgg way down.

I want to see the rest of that

I assume “fig tree” means food source? if so, cool tree times two. You could just build [and reinforce] inside the hollows/cut passages to rooms and have a food source hanging over your head. I think they are a miracle if they produce food. What better tree to have such a capacity as that, than one that will take out a non fruiting tree and replace it with a fig store for hundreds of years…yup

could we manipulate trees to grow into houses for us to live in? (group of?)Big hollow tree could house a large family. What if biology and technology fuse toghether to investigate how a house can be grown from scratch in say 50, or 200 years, and last for 2000? Which ape will be the lucky monkey to live or work in the tallest tree in our civilization?
A tree house may not be a sky scraper, but it is mostly biodegradable, and it offers it´s own AI and Bio-microfauna giving a mre divers exprienz