Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Figs are successful forest trees with some 900 separate species worldwide.

The strangler fig is one of the most iconic trees of Costa Rica. They’re present throughout most of the country’s varied landscapes, their life history is fascinating, they’re a food source and home ...

One of the mystery plants for this week was a series of trees with large roots on the ground and around buildings. There was a lot of interest in the plants, with quite a few guesses. While there were ...

While we are increasingly understanding the many cooperative relationships that can exist between plants, in the jungle, one lifestyle remains quite mysterious: that of strangler trees that kill their ...

After surviving a hideous car crash in 1980, my friend Tucker Comstock experienced a spiritual refurbishment that helped her shed society’s mean limitations and jettisoned her free into a life filled ...

The Iban community in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, says it believes large strangler fig trees are inhabited by dangerous spirits, leading community members to protect these trees from harm ...

Some ficus species are strangler figs The seeds are eaten by birds and pass through the digestive tract undamaged If they are excreted on the branch of a tree in the feces of the birds and remain ...