A strangler fig that starts life as a seed dropped by a bird in the fork of another tree, sends roots to the ground and slowly encloses its host. Its year-round crops of small figs feed turacos, green pigeons, monkeys and fruit bats, making it the most important food tree in the forest.
Did you know?
Figs are sacred in Kikuyu tradition and were never cut; some of the oldest trees in Karen are figs for that reason.
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