How the Stranger Fig Grows
By Ryan Daniels
The strangler fig is an interesting tree. It grows around another tree. When the strangler fig grows around another tree the they call it the host tree. The strangler fig starts to grow by a bird that eats the strangler figs fruit and spreds it by it's droppings. Also wasps fly up to 5.8 miles between strangler figs. Then it will become a plant that grows on a branch. Slowly it will send it's roots down. When the roots hit the bottom it starts to go around the host trees trunk. Then it will start to take the host trees vitaman and water. When it grows all the way around it will block the sun and the water. Then the tree dies. The strangler fig will then become a big tree. The strangler fig can grow up to 65 to 100 feet tall. The strangler fig grows with twisted and skinny vines.But then the vines grow big and fat. When the vines get pulled together they become a woody trunk that pulls it self up towrads the canopy. All the figs spread over 225 miles far bigger then any kind of plant species.
