Strangler Fig (Ficus obliqua) - Allyn River, Barrington Tops
Young children tend to like to climb things. Such as book cases, cupboards, ladders, kitchen shelves, all over pianos and tables. Some of them almost get up to the ceiling. Up fences, pot plants and garden trellaces outside. When they get to the top, it's not always so easy to get down. If I was 18 months old, looking up at this Strangler Fig, I'd be tempted to climb it as well.
This fig tree grows in a sub tropical jungle, beside the Allyn River in the Barrington Tops, Australia. The enmeshed, descending roots of the tree create a framework of immense strength. It is a marvel of structural engineering.
Strangler Fig (Ficus obliqua) - Allyn River, Barrington Tops
Young children tend to like to climb things. Such as book cases, cupboards, ladders, kitchen shelves, all over pianos and tables. Some of them almost get up to the ceiling. Up fences, pot plants and garden trellaces outside. When they get to the top, it's not always so easy to get down. If I was 18 months old, looking up at this Strangler Fig, I'd be tempted to climb it as well.
This fig tree grows in a sub tropical jungle, beside the Allyn River in the Barrington Tops, Australia. The enmeshed, descending roots of the tree create a framework of immense strength. It is a marvel of structural engineering.