Buddha head in the roots of a fig tree

Ayuttaya, Thailand

Young stranger found waiting among fig leaves

These Majestic Moreton Bay Fig Trees on Norfolk Island are Believed to be over 200 years old.

Shot taken during our Norfolk Island Tour in 2019. We are looking forward to heading back in 2021 (Hopefully)

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This is the scene of slow but age-old struggle: the tenacious tree is probing and poking the rock for cracks and fissures to exploit, while the rock - which probably predates the dinosaurs - holds steadfast and has seen it all before. The tree outgrows its support system and tumbles, to be taken by the sea at the end of this narrow pathway. However, the hardy tree's root-system lives on to sprout a new shoot heading for the light, and the struggle continues.

Just before the sunset in Molentargius park, south Sardinia. Italy

Well, they caught the guy who set fire to this giant rubber fig tree (Ficus elastica). Surveillance cameras are everywhere these days.

George Clooney hidden in the fig tree.

He is looking for birds but fortunately they fly very high because they know there are cats here.

I'm glad for that ;-)

Protaras is a predominantly tourist resort which comes under the administrative jurisdiction of Paralimni Municipality in Cyprus.

Protaras, the tourist area, extends along the eastern coast of Paralimni and stretches for 10km from the district of 'Kapparis' to the location of 'Konnos'.

Protaras is Ayia Napa's laid-back neighbor.

Cyprus is an island in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean and the world's 80th largest island by area.

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Taken in the Lockyer Valley just west of Brisbane.

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Beads of water on the fig after a hard rain.

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Fig Tree Bay, Protaras, Cyprus

This is a running crab spider (Philodromus spp.) of some kind! I barely spotted this fella sheltering from the rain under a leaf on my fig tree (Ficus carica spp. 'Brown Turkey'). It took a bit of finagling and yoga, but I eventually got a pretty good keeper!

Unlike the American Green Crab Spider (Misumessus oblongus), this guy's species chose to opt for cryptic camouflage, a fancy term for the mottled look he has going on. However, if you look close, his second set of legs is drastically longer than the rest. He also has his eyes on a slight "turret", another stereotypical feature of crab spiders! So, despite looking like exact opposites, these two species are cousins.

This guy (as evidenced by the slightly swollen terminal ends of the pedipalps) was intent to stay hidden, and moved around a bit while I set up my chair. I tried to get a shot at 1.54:1, but the rain meant working distance was more important than resolution. Once I removed the extensions and backed off a bit, the rain quit pelting my camera and I felt better about taking a shot or twenty.

I love how "sprawled out" the crab spiders look. It makes for a rather imposing silhouette, and a genuinely aggressive looking creature at any magnification. ESPECIALLY up close at 1:1. However, they are not medically significant, and are much more likely to hightail it away than to go on the offensive. Overall, a beneficial predator, and a welcome guest on my fig tree. His rent will be all the aphids he can eat, and in exchange I will check on him daily until he moves on to find greener pastures and a female!

This shot was captured with my Vivitar (Komine) 90mm f2.8 Macro in 1:1. This photo is uncropped. This cryptically camouflaged creature is around 9mm long, but has a leg span pushing 25mm or so (just around an inch)!!!

Buckfast, Devon, England

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Fig trees and fleshy sweet treatments for birds' dinner parties ...

The fig tree in a garden in the upper car park is producing some great looking fruit. I can see owners having to get the netting out soon before the birds start eat them.

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There was a for sale sign, I really hope that the tree doesn't get removed.

Another precocious plant. Leaves and fruit at the same time.

A very curious and intriguing Maasai Mara fig tree structure, visible for miles around, and clearly a magnet for the well-known cheetah group composed of two sets of brothers known as the Five Musketeers.

These two were having a deep conversation oblivious to the beautiful sunset that was happening around them. I wonder what they were chatting about?

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100 years old, with an overgrown canopy big enough to fit a picnic table underneath. You bring the food and wine, the tree provides dessert and shade. Everybody wins. :)

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New leaves and a couple of tiny figs.

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There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free.

Protaras is a predominantly tourist resort which comes under the administrative jurisdiction of Paralimni Municipality in Cyprus.

Protaras, the tourist area, extends along the eastern coast of Paralimni and stretches for 10km from the district of 'Kapparis' to the location of 'Konnos'.

Cyprus is an island in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean and the world's 80th largest island by area.

Una de esas higueras antiguas y grandiosas que hay en Formentera bajo la Via Lactea.

Estos monumentales ejemplares de higueras tienen unas copas que cubren una superficie de entre 300 y 350 metros cuadrados. Este conjunto de higueras fueron incluidas en el Catálogo Balear de Árboles Singulares en el año 1993 por sus especiales característica y por su edad.

La estructura que presentan los árboles es fruto de mantener de forma artificial una enorme copa gracias a la ayuda de puntales y horcas.

Se trata de una técnica tradicional que hoy en día ya pocos conocen y que se está perdiendo, y que da al árbol una configuración muy horizontal, capaz de mantener sus ramas largas, que cubren mucha superficie.

De hecho, en ninguna otra parte del Mediterráneo se tratan así las higueras que en vez de crecer en vertical lo hacen en horizontal.

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One of those ancient and great fig trees that are in Formentera under the Via Lactea.

These monumental specimens of fig trees have tops that cover an area of ​​between 300 and 350 square meters. This group of fig trees were included in the Balearic Catalog of Singular Trees in 1993 due to their special characteristics and their age.

The structure that the trees present is the result of artificially maintaining a huge crown thanks to the help of struts and pitchforks.

It is a traditional technique that few know today and that is being lost, and that gives the tree a very horizontal configuration, capable of maintaining its long branches, which cover a lot of surface.

In fact, nowhere else in the Mediterranean are fig trees treated like that, instead of growing vertically, they grow horizontally.

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Jardin Raymond VI.

Positive identification of this fig tree native to the Atlantic Forest, Santa Catarina, Brazil is pending, depending on leaf morphology.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free.

Protaras is a predominantly tourist resort which comes under the administrative jurisdiction of Paralimni Municipality in Cyprus.

Protaras, the tourist area, extends along the eastern coast of Paralimni and stretches for 10km from the district of 'Kapparis' to the location of 'Konnos'.

Cyprus is an island in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean and the world's 80th largest island by area.

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Fig tree,

Adelaide city centre, South Australia, Australia

Ficus macrophylla, commonly known as the Moreton Bay fig or Australian banyan, is a large evergreen banyan tree of the Mulberry Family (Moraceae) native to eastern Australia, from the Wide Bay–Burnett region in the north to the Illawarra in New South Wales, as well as Lord Howe Island where the subspecies F. m. columnaris is a banyan form covering 2.5 acres (a hectare) or more of ground. Its common name is derived from Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia. It is best known for its imposing buttress roots.

An introduced species, they have been very successful at making a home for themselves in Orange County. They have a real fondness for out fig tree. I guess I can't get too upset about it as figs are an introduced species to California. That could fall under the "genetic turn about is fair play" category.

...this is a fig tree in my parent's backyard....unfortunately, they weren't quite ripe yet.

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So far I have not been able to identify this fig tree native to the Atlantic Forest, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Possibly Ficus organensis.

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Taken from the head of the Boquer Valley, near Puerto Pollensa.

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Wat Mahathat Temple of the Great Relics is located almost right in the center of Ayutthaya. Apart from being the symbolic center where the Buddha's relics were enshrined, Wat Mahathat was also the residence of the leader of the Thai Buddhist monks. The temple is believed to be built during the 14th century A.D. the early Ayutthaya period. Across the road we found Wat Mahathat, home to Ayutthaya's most famous image, the Buddha in the tree. Buddha head entwined by the root system of a fig tree Ficus religiosa. Like Indiana Jones we knew what we were looking for, it just took a while to find it! After a good deal of walking around and a fair amount of "we're not leaving until we find the flaming thing", we stumbled across the iconic tree not 100m from the entrance in the dark shadow of the big fig tree. The Buddha head made of stone is engulfed by a huge tree, whose roots have spent hundreds of years growing round it. We were understandably not allowed to get near enough to touch it, but quite close. The temple has been dated to the 14th Century so we can make a guess at how old the tree and Buddha are. I keep wondering what life must have been like when the tree first started growing.

Photo of a Buddha Head entwined by an old fig tree taken at Wat Mahathat in the Historical park of Ayutthaya - Thailand. Perhaps the start of a new episode of Indiana Jones - the Mysterious Buddha Head...

Wat Mahathat is een oude indrukwekkende ruïne tempel waar een Buddha hoofd tussen de wortels van een boom zit gestrengeld. De Boeddha hoofd is ingeklemd tussen de wortels van een vijgenboom en is ook op alle PR-posters van Ayutthaya te bewonderen. Het was even zoeken net zoals bij Indiana Jones maar uiteindelijk toch gevonden, 100m van de ingang bij een grote vijgenboom in de donkere schaduw. De tempel uit de veertiende eeuw is opgenomen in de UNESCO wereld heritage lijst. Wat Phra Mahathat stamt uit de 14e eeuw en is gebouwd tijdens de regering van koning Ramesuan. Het heeft een prachtige Khmerstijl toren en vooral het boeddha hoofd dat vergroeid is met de boom is prachtig. De historie houdt namelijk niet op buiten het tempelpark. Zelfs buiten het eiland staan eeuwenoude tempels die vast veel minder toeristen trekken en daardoor ongetwijfeld een bijzondere sfeer hebben.

scratching around for a fence shot, hope this will do. HFF

Protaras is a predominantly tourist resort which comes under the administrative jurisdiction of Paralimni Municipality in Cyprus. In ancient times, where Protaras is now located, stood the old city-state of Leukolla. The city possessed a small safe harbour where the Athenian Demetrius Poliorketes sought refuge in the year 306 BC, lying in wait for Ptolemeos, one of the successors of Alexander the Great.

Ayia Napa is a resort at the far eastern end of the southern coast of Cyprus.

With a fig tree on top, of course.

The Bow window cafe & Fig Tree Spa, The Square Lenham

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Dans le figuier / On the fig tree (jardin Raymond VI, Toulouse).

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