Tim Laman / Strangler Fig (Ficus stupenda) roots wrap around a host tree and descend to the ground. Host is a giant Dipterocarp tree (Shorea sp.) Lowland rainforest in Borneo. Gunung Palung National Park, Indones...

Tim Laman / Strangler Fig (Ficus stupenda) growing on its host tree. Its roots wrap around a host tree and descend to the ground. Host is a giant Dipterocarp tree (Shorea sp.) Lowland rainforest in Borneo. Gunung...

Tim Laman / Strangler Fig (Ficus stupenda) growing on its host tree. Its roots wrap around a host tree and descend to the ground. Host is a giant Dipterocarp tree (Shorea sp.) Lowland rainforest in Borneo. Gunung...

Tim Laman / Strangler Fig (Ficus stupenda) growing on its host tree. Its roots wrap around a host tree and descend to the ground. Host is a giant Dipterocarp tree (Shorea sp.) Lowland rainforest in Borneo. Gunung...

Tim Laman / Strangler Fig (Ficus stupenda) growing on its host tree. Its roots wrap around a host tree and descend to the ground. Host is a giant Dipterocarp tree (Shorea sp.) Lowland rainforest in Borneo. Gunung...

Tim Laman / Strangler fig (Ficus stupenda) roots wrapped around a giant diptocarp host tree and entering a knot hole in the host. Lowland rainforest, Gunung Palung National Park, Borneo, West Kalimantan, Indonesi...

Kevin Schafer / Giant Strangler Fig (Ficus aurea) in tropical rainforest interior, Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

Kevin Schafer / Giant Strangler Fig (Ficus aurea) in tropical rainforest, Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

Scott Leslie / Giant Strangler Fig (Ficus aurea) surrounding its host plant, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Florida

Scott Leslie / Giant Strangler Fig (Ficus aurea) surrounding its host plant, Everglades National Park, Florida

Thomas Marent / Giant Strangler Fig (Ficus aurea) buttress roots, Ankarana Special Reserve, northern Madagascar

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Giant Strangler Fig (Ficus aurea) base of trunk, Tangkoko Batuangus Reserve, Indonesia