I love the way they look, but I confess, when I find one my first instinct is to cut it down.
Just today I found one growing at the foot of a palm and near the septic tank - I doubt I'll be able to get rid of it but at least I can curb its growth somewhat.
Then when you like how it looks, slice it down one side and cut the roots. Then use that beautiful natural sculpture as an art piece or turn it into a lamp.
I love strangler figs, even if everyone else says they’re pests 🤣 I recently took some wood cuttings of one I found in south FL and propagated them
https://preview.redd.it/d700jcvw9xad1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58f5baae9bd97ad24b16371c2dbf945e17507838
Palms are just so incredibly dense. You see them blowing in the wind and think they are basically like willow branches, but when you cut one down and try to move a log, god DAMN they are fucking heavy. Oak branches of the same diameter are heavy, but nowhere near as heavy as a palm trunk.
When a palm tree comes down in my backyard, I leave it for a year or so to dry out, so it's much easier to move.
It’s very uncommon. I have seen it in dense old-growth hammock, usually by this point the ficus has layers of dense aerial prop roots and a rotted husk of a palmetto trunk in the middle. Sometimes all that’s left of the palmetto is the hole its trunk leaves behind.
https://preview.redd.it/ghyzbnmoe5bd1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10cc0763436429cd7181e66018e48815435d8140
I recognized that tree right away! Such cool plants.
tree hug tree aww
Hug or chokehold?
oh no trees are supposed to be friends not enemies hope they are ok
Hug because it’s a palm. Can’t get choked (smothered is another story).
oh no trees are supposed to be friends not enemies hope they are ok
 🎼 You’ve got a friend in tree…🎵
What kind of parasite tree is that?
Strangler fig
Not to be confused with stabber fig, assault and battery fig, or grand larceny fig
Can’t ignore those trade-based money laundering figs either.
I love the way they look, but I confess, when I find one my first instinct is to cut it down. Just today I found one growing at the foot of a palm and near the septic tank - I doubt I'll be able to get rid of it but at least I can curb its growth somewhat.
Just rain it to where you want it,why cut it when you controll it
Then when you like how it looks, slice it down one side and cut the roots. Then use that beautiful natural sculpture as an art piece or turn it into a lamp.
/r/TreesSuckingOnThings
No way this is real, i thought you had played me for a fool, consider me double swirled
This sub was not what I was expecting…
were you expecting /r/trees?
I mean I did but I stayed out of sheer curiosity
It's one of those lovely reddit inside jokes.
It wears you down after a decade
You don’t like trees?
I love strangler figs, even if everyone else says they’re pests 🤣 I recently took some wood cuttings of one I found in south FL and propagated them https://preview.redd.it/d700jcvw9xad1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58f5baae9bd97ad24b16371c2dbf945e17507838
isn’t it almost impossible for strangler figs to kill palmettos?
Palms are just so incredibly dense. You see them blowing in the wind and think they are basically like willow branches, but when you cut one down and try to move a log, god DAMN they are fucking heavy. Oak branches of the same diameter are heavy, but nowhere near as heavy as a palm trunk. When a palm tree comes down in my backyard, I leave it for a year or so to dry out, so it's much easier to move.
They aren't going to take down a palmetto lol
It’s very uncommon. I have seen it in dense old-growth hammock, usually by this point the ficus has layers of dense aerial prop roots and a rotted husk of a palmetto trunk in the middle. Sometimes all that’s left of the palmetto is the hole its trunk leaves behind.
Elden ring, shadow of the erdtree
Whoa bro
Strangler fig doing it’s thang
r/treessuckingontrees
Where in FL is this?
It’s at [this park](https://maps.app.goo.gl/s5fpQ6hZkYATYroZA?g_st=ic) near vero beach, along the parking lot
This is what I picture when I hear people talk about tiny vines overtaking and killing mature/well established trees
https://preview.redd.it/ghyzbnmoe5bd1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10cc0763436429cd7181e66018e48815435d8140 I recognized that tree right away! Such cool plants.
r/tworedditorsonecup type shiz, that park is awesomely cool, great spot to see manatees in the early morning!