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strangler fig

What the fig?

November 3, 2009 by Sprig

I found this tenacious plant in our garden. It started growing in the drain pipe and has stretched (from about 4 feet up) to lay down roots in the ground.. I think the smaller plant is a rubber plant but the root-layer is a strangler fig. They don’t give up… 🙂

Tenacious 1
Tenacious 1

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Categories Garden Reviews and Visits Tags fig tree, strangler fig 4 Comments

Warning – strangler at work

June 11, 2009April 15, 2009 by Sprig

In an earlier post, my brother lamented the scourge of syringa berry trees in Durban.  In the comments section it was suggested that strangler figs could be used to combat them.  I regularly jog down Manning Road and spotted a strangler fig at work on a Flamboyant.

Warning - strangler at work
Warning - strangler at work

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Categories Garden Reviews and Visits Tags strangler fig, tree 5 Comments
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