| Birmingham Botanical Gardens BASE | |
| the interesting bits |
| Stranglers |
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Towards the far end of the pool by the side of the wooden bench is Ficus benjamina - a strangler fig. In its native conditions the seeds germinate in the branches of trees producing roots which grow downwards, encircling the trunk, right to the ground. It then: (1) produces its own crown of leaves
shading out the host tree
Look
out for the aerial
roots coming down from our fig. Ours has been planted directly in the
soil and not grown epiphytically, so its appearance differs from that in
the diagram.
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