Especially as we’re just outside the reception of our hotel, a beachside rainforest resort in Costa Rica. Funnily enough, we’d spent the morning at a national park trying to spot a sloth, eyeing ...

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

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.

Banyans start their lives as epiphytes germinated from sticky seeds that lodge in the branches or crevasses of another tree. Banyans can reach 60-80 feet in height with an equal or larger spread.

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 ...

The howler monkey, of course, acts as one of those seed-dispersal agents in the rain forest that the strangler fig tree needs to propagate itself. In this way, it helps to choreograph the terrain.

The strange growth of Banyan trees. Notably, the Banyan trees fall into strangler fig family, having a weird way of growing. The process begins when a seed lands on another tree’s branch.

His tree, which later became the sacred tree of Buddhism, is also a strangler fig. Figs that strangle other trees. The only victims of these strangler figs are actually other trees, after a process ...

Incremental Refactoring with the Strangler Fig Pattern: The strangler fig pattern enables a gradual migration from monolithic structures to modular services. For Java, this is implemented through ...

This amazing tree climber shows how he climbs his way up a giant tree. 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 ...