A strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas.
A pitchapple tree bloomed in the dooryard, a ring of dusty red circling the round white petals of the flower.
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Two countries have placed a stranglerfig on their coats of arms.
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And my sisters of the stranglerfig tree turned bad men into rabbits.
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One of the trunks from the stranglerfig suddenly shifted, moved to block Skylan's way.
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The stranglerfig tree vented its rage on him.
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The druids had not turned Skylan's men into rabbits or ordered the stranglerfig to attack.
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What the locals called a stranglerfig.
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He kept walking and was soon lost among the trunks of the tree known as the stranglerfig.
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Erected by conservation group Animo, architecturally astounding treehouses straddle the giant trunks of stranglerfig trees and embrace breath-taking views.
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Torches flickered in the darkness, hundreds of them, winding through the far-flung limbs of the stranglerfig, heading in their direction.
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The long, gauzy strands of Spanish moss and stranglerfig that wrap themselves in those trees could be three to ten years.
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They took a fancy to the stranglerfigs and brought back a sapling.
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Stranglerfigs grow only in those lands where summer is endless.
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He saw many stranglerfigs growing along the island's coast, a kind called Ficus citrifolia.
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And while most plants bury their roots underground, the stranglerfigs and their kin show them off.
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But the stranglerfigs had reached into human minds long before these European explorers took to the seas.
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"The tree is called a stranglerfig," said the druid.