The descending roots of a strangler fig (Ficus, Family Moraceae), a hemiepiphyte), have grown around a host trunk, interconnected, and thus begun the process of killing the living tissues of the host plant (phloem and vascular cambium).
The descending roots of a strangler fig (Ficus, Family Moraceae), a hemiepiphyte), have grown around a host trunk, interconnected, and thus begun the process of killing the living tissues of the host plant (phloem and vascular cambium).