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 ...

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

Inspired by the Australian Banyan tree commonly known as the Strangler Fig the sitespecific mashup used appropriated material from popular culture related to strangulation suffocation hanging and ...

Some ficus species are strangler figs The seeds are eaten by birds and pass through the digestive tract undamaged If they are excreted on the branch of a tree in the feces of the birds and remain ...

The dying host appears to have been “strangled”, hence the name strangler fig. The dead host tree often leaves the fig with a hollow trunk when it decomposes, providing more nutrients as it ...