Strangler fig is the common name for a number of tropical and subtropical plant species in the genus Ficus, including those that are commonly known as banyans.
to Stranglerfigs. The Tropical Rain Forest, including photos of stranglerfigs The Queen of Trees: Fig Trees – From the Sacred to the Strangler Being...
In programming, the stranglerfig pattern or strangler pattern is an architectural pattern that involves wrapping old code, with the intent of redirecting...
os barbados, gave Barbados its name.[citation needed] The Florida stranglerfig (Ficus aurea) is also native to South Florida and the Caribbean islands...
largest trees in the world by canopy coverage. It is also known as the "stranglerfig" because it starts out as epiphyte, that is, leaning on another tree...
known for its imposing buttress roots. Ficus macrophylla is called a stranglerfig because seed germination usually takes place in the canopy of a host...
and 1970s. Giant stranglerfigs such as the Curtain Fig Tree were considered to be wonders (or even freaks) of nature. Stranglerfigs are a parasitic species...
south to Paraguay. It is distinguished from the closely related Florida stranglerfig (Ficus aurea) mainly by the finer veining in the leaves. Ficus citrifolia...
watkinsiana, commonly known as stranglerfig, Watkins' fig, nipple fig or the green-leaved Moreton Bay fig is a hemiepiphytic fig that is endemic to Australia...
Mabi forests including a huge stranglerfig which attracts up to 100 000 visitors per year, locally known as the Curtain Fig Tree, plus a near threatened...
and "strangle" it. This usually results in the death of the host tree, either through girdling or through competition for light. Stranglerfigs can also...
Ficus craterostoma, a species of stranglerfig, is a fig shrub or tree of the Afrotropics that may grow up to 20 m tall. It is found in lowland tropical...
also known as dye fig, or humped fig is a hemiepiphytic tree of genus Ficus. It is also one of the species known as stranglerfig. It is found in Asia...
give the appearance that it is strangling the host. Another strangler that begins life as an epiphyte is the Moreton Bay fig (Ficus macrophylla) of tropical...
behaving like a stranglerfig as it gets larger. Like a stranglerfig, it successfully competes for light by outgrowing, overtopping and "strangling" its host...
Ficus henneana is a stranglerfig only occurring in Australia. Previously considered a variety of Ficus superba which occurs in China, Japan and parts...
introduced into the New World tropics, including Puerto Rico). It is a stranglerfig; it begins its life cycle as an epiphyte on a larger tree, which it...
their host plant, such as by intercepting light. Hemiepiphytes like the stranglerfig begin as epiphytes, but eventually set their own roots and overpower...
native to Africa. It is commonly known as Mugumo to the Agikuyu or the StranglerFig in common English. Recent phylogenetic analysis suggests it may be a...
the Eastern Highlands include teak, mahogany, enormous specimens of stranglerfig, forest Newtonia, big leaf, white stinkwood, chirinda stinkwood, knobthorn...
is a fig tree belonging to the group of trees known as stranglerfigs, which is because its seeds can germinate on other trees and grow to strangle and...
i.e. "very tall") Myanmar; "Nyaung Moat Seit" Ficus altissima is a "stranglerfig", often starting life as an epiphyte, on trees such as Lagerstroemia...
in a community of stranglerfigs and pollinating wasps in Panama. Another possibility is the evolution of cheating. Where a single fig species is able to...