Inviting pathways curve through thickets of mango, papaya, guanabana, cashews, and star fruit trees, spiky bromeliads, giant strangler figs, heliconias, a variety of gingers and countless other species.
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Research suggests that the frequency of genetic mosaicism among strangler figs may be quite high; it is unknown how this variation effects flowering in mosaic figs . ( Thomson et al ., 1995 ).
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Florida strangler figs ( " Ficus aurea " ) are common in hammocks, and find particular ease in rooting at the heads of cabbage palms ( " Sabal palmetto " ).
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A tangled, tropical canopy of olives, strangler figs, ebony acacias, palms, red milkwoods, and maiden hair ferns, it is infiltrated by gossiping vervet monkeys and birds of many colors and songs.
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It loops through a canopy of hardwood hammocks that include gumbo limbo, royal palms ( " Roystonea " ), strangler figs ( " Ficus aurea " ), and a variety of epiphytes.
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As " Ficus macrophylla " is a strangler fig, seed germination usually takes place in the canopy of a host tree and the seedling lives as an epiphyte until its roots establish contact with the ground.
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During their battle, Mowgli lures Shere Khan onto a dead strangler fig tree and eventually defeats him by causing him to fall into a pit of fire to his death, ending his tyranny once and for all.
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-- Cambodia _ " Angkor Wat is truly magnificent, haunting, but I was charmed by a neighborhood gem, Ta Prohm, a small temple fighting for its existence against rogue invaders _ persistent strangler fig trees.
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It is also one of the species known as a "'Strangler fig "'because of its potential to grow as a hemi-epiphyte and eventually progress to the strangling habit that many figs are known for.
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Surrounded by pastures that have been clear-cut and burned to make way for cattle ranching and charcoal production, this relatively small stand of strangler figs and red-barked chaca trees and ebonies is a paradise barely known _ and nearly lost.
