| 11. | Descriptions of unusual tropical vegetation such as the giant strangler figs began to appear in tourist guides from the 1920s.
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| 12. | Hemiepiphytes like the strangler fig begin as epiphytes but eventually set their own roots and overpower and kill their host.
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| 13. | Giant strangler figs such as the Curtain Fig Tree were considered to be wonders ( or even freaks ) of nature.
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| 14. | North Queensland strangler figs were portrayed photographically in The Queenslander from as early as 1896 and on postcards soon after 1900.
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| 15. | The night was black and moonless, just a billion stars glittering through the canopy of tangled mahogany and strangler fig limbs.
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| 16. | A trail winds through mixed temperate and subtropical trees, including cabbage palms, mastic trees, gumbo limbos and strangler figs.
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| 17. | The aerial roots of strangler fig have damaged ancient Mayan temples in Central America and the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
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| 18. | The strangler fig and the northern rt ( " Metrosideros robusta " ) of New Zealand are examples of this.
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| 19. | The tropical forests contain hundreds of plant species including African tulip tree, rubber tree, strangler fig, and " cecropia ".
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| 20. | It is distinguished from the closely related Florida strangler fig ( " Ficus aurea " ) mainly by the finer veining in the leaves.
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