Always Exploring — Climbing A Giant Strangler Fig 🌿 Strangler figs are absolutely fascinating. Took a moment to climb this massive fig while filming with my mates at Columbia Sportswear. Plenty more epic Columbia adventures coming soon — stay tuned! 🌿✨ #ad #alwaysexploring #stranglerfig #treeclimbing #naturelover #outdooradventures #columbiasportswear #filmlife #adventuretime #behindthescenes #ad | Forever Steve’s Kids

In order to survive in the dense tropical rainforest, the strangler fig offers its host trees a special and deadly embrace. The strangling process is slow and continuous. It helps renew the vegetation and keep the ecosystem balanced. #nature #cgtnnature #jianfengling | CGTN

THE STRANGLER FIG Perhaps the most famous hemiepiphyte is the towering strangler fig tree which starts life as Strangler Fig, Brazil 1999 a tiny seed in the canopy. The roots grow down to the forest floor where they take root and begin to take nutrients from the soil. Gradually the roots wrap around the host tree, widen, and slowly form a lattice-work that surrounds the host's trunk. The fig's crown grows foliage which soon overshadows the tree. Eventually, the host tree dies leaving the fig wit

Ta Som Temple is best known for the giant strangler fig growing over its eastern gate, where tree roots and stone merge into a dramatic natural arch. | Bong Yan