Boy stands inside a giant strangler fig, Ficus aurea.
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Martin Shields / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5150 x 3447 px | 43.6 x 29.2 cm | 17.2 x 11.5 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
9 February 2015More information:
A boy stands inside a giant strangler fig, Ficus aurea, La Amistad National Park, Costa Rica. The host tree is dead and decomposed so the central core is hollow - such a strangler is known as a "columnar tree" - but the fig tree remains. These trees are hemiepiphytic because they start as epiphytes high in a host but their roots grow down to the soil and the strangler then surrounds its host.