Our last stop was SCP Corcovado Wilderness Lodge, tucked away on the edge of Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park and one of the most biodiverse spots on the planet. Surrounded by 189 acres of ...

In my opinion, the easiest fruit to grow in Southeast Texas is the fig—by far! Common figs ( Ficus carica) are unique because ...

A familiar, even iconic, sight in California is actually an incredibly invasive species, according to plant experts.

The banyan is a kind of strangler fig tree, and unlike most plants, which grow from the ground up, it thrives when it grows from the sky down.

Most of us recognize and appreciate Banyan trees, but few of us understand their importance to our environment. banyan, ficus aurea, is another name for strangler fig or golden fig and is one of ...

Some of them have been colonized by strangler figs that are using their host tree as a base to grow their leaves above the host’s leaves, slowly killing the tree it strangles. The buzzing insects and ...

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The tree stretches across 5 acres, which is equivalent to four football fields. As per a report by Forbes, the massive banyan tree has a natural canopy that spans over 19,000 square meters.

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 ...

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Noah Kane, 22, is a film maker and avid climber based in Costa Rica. In the video Noah can be seen climbing a giant strangler fig tree in the mountainous jungle regions of Costa Rica.