Trees grew out of their sides at slapdash angles, curving upwards, supported by vast buttress roots.

In the semi-darkness, the water laps the buttress roots of the giant kapok trees, amplifying their grandeur and mystery.

The caman is provided by the butt length of the tree, where the growth reaches down into the strong buttress roots.

Michael Wilson, hiking in the rain forest, hears drumbeats that he knows are chimpanzees pounding on buttress roots, signaling each other.

Creepers laced the great cottonwoods, tangled vines crawled about their tall, buttressed roots, and hung in festoons from the giant branches.

Sometimes we were all three walking together along a fallen trunk, then we had to cling to the huge buttressed roots of a tree.