Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

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. The seed catches in the branches of another tree and ...

banyan, ficus aurea, is another name for strangler ... sticky seeds that lodge in the branches or crevasses of another tree. The young plant puts out long aerial roots which eventually reach ...