The strangler fig, as a hemi-epiphyte, is renowned for its unique "strangling" behavior. Its colonization and establishment on some trees in tropical urban green spaces form a distinctive ecological ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Iban community in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, says it believes large strangler fig trees are inhabited by dangerous spirits, leading ...

In parts of Indonesian Borneo, forests endure not because they are fenced off or regulated, but because they are feared. Among the Indigenous Iban people of Sungai Utik, large strangler fig trees are ...

A filmmaker and avid climber captures his unique ascent up a giant strangler fig tree in the mountainous jungle of Costa Rica. Noah Kane can be seen carefully making his way up the enormous tree, ...

Rafi Vargas is working on cleanly climbing a 5.13 route in his hometown of Monteverde, Costa Rica. He’s named it El Duro Duro, “The Hard Hard” in Spanish, as a nod to Chris Sharma’s famous route La ...

While we are increasingly understanding the many cooperative relationships that can exist between plants, in the jungle, one lifestyle remains quite mysterious: that of strangler trees that kill their ...

One of the mystery plants for this week was a series of trees with large roots on the ground and around buildings. There was a lot of interest in the plants, with quite a few guesses. While there were ...

The young people in bright yellow hard hats and wielding shovels weren't there to cut ribbons or take part in a groundbreaking for a new retail center. The students from Palm Beach Day Academy, Palm ...