As the day cooled, we rented a canoe and followed a five-mile loop into the interior, passing under trees festooned with bromeliads and air plants and past strangler figs whose fantastic vines had engulfed the pond apple and coco plum trees beneath them.
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There haven't been many in the 30 years I've been a voter, as the great strangler fig growing on the Potomac choked off more and more of the wildflowers each of us would choose to grow in the gardens of our own lives.
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While some West Indian species are relatively common in South Florida ( " e . g . ", gumbo limbo and strangler fig ), many of these species are extremely rare, and are listed as threatened or endangered by the State of Florida.
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Ancient cypress trees waved banners of Spanish moss over our heads; strangler figs choked palm trunks like boa constrictors, while bromeliad air plants poufed out from them like Dr . Seuss cartoons; lilies and cattails floated as neatly as the water gardens of Miami's Viscaya mansion.
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Instead, Virginia live oak, strangler fig, pond apple, saw palmetto, wild coffee and the dazzling purple American beautyberry can be seen and admired along a 1, 000-foot wheelchair-accessible sidewalk that leads to the edge of a little swamp, and back again.
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With a pocket of rare, isolated, but healthy, remnant rainforest, including a 150-year-old strangler fig, on the corner of Range and Mackenzie Streets, Boyce Gardens is significant for its strong streetscape value and the aesthetic contribution of the site to the area.
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We walked along the trail, made muddy by the rain, past bright orange mushrooms, strangler figs, bamboo, gumbo limbo, and tearcoats _ prickly plants that are so named because if you walk too close to them they'll tear your coat or anything else you're wearing.
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The Curtain Fig Tree ( Ficus virens ), a 500-year old strangler fig that has been associated with organised tourism on the Atherton Tableland since the 1920s, is important for its association with the evolution of tourism in Far North Queensland, demonstrating the attraction of the North Queensland natural environment for tourists.
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The ridge they were exploring, Doyle's Delight, is nine miles east of the Guatemalan border and was named for its resemblance to the prehistoric setting of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel " The Lost World . " Towering palms and strangler figs, their trunks wrapped in a green shag of ferns and mosses, rise and converge in a leafy canopy that keeps the moist forest floor in perpetual dusk.
