Alan Watson / Buttress roots of tree (Tetrameles nudiflora) in tropical rainforest, Khao Yai National Park, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand

Theo Allofs / Buttress roots of giant trees in tropical rainforest, Tongkoko Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Pete Oxford / Buttress root in rainforest with photographer Pete Oxford standing beneath it, Sacha Lodge, Amazon Rain Forest, Ecuador

Jouan & Rius / Buttress roots of giant tree in rainforest, Tortuguero NP, Costa Rica

Jouan & Rius / Buttress roots of giant tree in rainforest, Tortuguero NP, Costa Rica

Nick Garbutt / Male Three-horned Rhinoceros beetle {Chalcosoma mollenkampi} on buttress root, lowland rain forest, Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo.

Staffan Widstrand / Buttress roots details, Manaus, Brazil, South America

Pete Oxford / Buttress roots of Fig tree, Ficus sp. Yasuni NP. Ecuador Amazonia

Pete Oxford / Tarantula (Theraphosidae) on buttress root of fig tree. Yasuni NP, Ecuador, Central America

Pete Oxford / Tarantula (Theraphosidae) on buttress root of fig tree (Ficus sp.). Yasuni NP, Ecuador, Central America

Pete Oxford / Tarantula (Theraphosidae) on buttress root of fig tree (Ficus sp.). Yasuni NP, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Tarantula on buttress root of Ficus (fig) species tree, Yasuni NP, Ecuador