Strangler Figs: What YOU need to know! Trees that strangle and kill! 

Thanks for posting this! Living in the North East, we don't get a chance to see something like these trees. Very cool!

That's one cool-looking tree! Lots of little hidey holes for the animals. I'd heard of strangler figs, but I'd never seen one, even in a picture, til now.

Hi Frank awesome video. . You take me to places ive never been. . Thank you very much teacher. Your student Jeff. God bless😊

Thank you

Fascinating stuff Mr. Taylor. I have come across a few cases of " Witches Broom " up here in Manitoba.

When I lived in Costa Rica I used to take strangler figs off of people's fruit trees, coffee bushes and living fence trees of various types. I used them for bonsai material. There are 2 species there that I used, and I never did get a definite answer for the exact species. One has heart shaped leaves and the other's leaves are longer and narrow. Neither is a great species for bonsai and I might be the only person to have tried them. I had ficus microcarpa and ficus benjamina that I bought there too, but I liked hunting the native ones. I grew up in Sarasota so you were in my okd neck of the woods in this video. It's interesting how many kinds if ficus live there. You can find non native ficus living as strangkers too, f microcarpa and others can easily start that way because there are so many examples planted in the ground. A ficus doesn't care if it pops out of the ground, on another tree, or in a crack in cement. There was one growing off the dock at a bait shop for years in Sarasota (Hart's Landing). It didn't have soil and couldn't reach the ground, there was water under the dock. It hung on for a long time like that. They're amazing trees.

Nature is so intertwined. God knew what he was doing. We are what is messing his handiwork up. Thats why i have a job. . I try to talk to people and try to tell them. Black snakes and bats are their friends. The smallest creature is important to nature and peoples well being. God bless Frank. Pennsylvania student Jeff. 😊😊

Hi Frank. Awsome video. Very interesting . Thank you. I sitting on my deck grilling corn on cob, and deer burgers from my deer. I'm watching 3 baby bunnies, and humming birds. And .y cat bird is trying to sound like a cardinal.. . My little wild area I made is full of critters.my wildflowers I planted are growing and should flower this year or next. My choke berries all grew also.. . . They more wild area the less I have to mow. . Where did you get the little plastic pond for your todes. God bless Jeff. 😊

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