Strangled

A strangler Fig at Border Ranges National Park, NSW.

These trees find a host tree and can literally squeeze the life out of them by growing downward and upward.They are the enormous giants of the forest. This one is hollow, as the host tree died. Sometimes you can climb up the inside. This one just got a big hug from my friend Anthony.

(btw, I am standing up when I took this, just to give some scale)

[idoodle]

Beautiful!

[Rob]

They are certainly amazing! Nicely captured!

[Nikki]

Fantastic perspective. They must be so large.

[Ken Lemieux]

Huge and cool!

[Richard Schuster]

I love hiking through the national parks Danielle. We were at Mt Barney which is not far from the border ranges i think?

[John]

Great PoV, love those textures in the trunk

[Jen]

fantasic shot, great POV

[Mike Warren]

Awesome shot. Thanks for the info.

[Margaret Tryon]

Wow! That is incredible.

[T-Dogg]

I love those enormous trees, especially when they go hollow and you can look up from the inside.

Great photo

[☯ Sarah ☁]

Woah! That's a hell of a tree!!

[Jane Pittenger]

Wow! Awesome and sounds darn invasive too. I like your perspective

[Kd Wallis]

oh my goodness. i would LOVE to see trees like this! look how gorgeous and neat they are! awesome shot!

[adobe waters]

dan what an incredible shot here!!!!!!!!!!

[Lisa Pouncy]

What an amazing tree. It looks enormous xx

[Jennifer C]

wow this is magnificent!

[Michelle]

Wozers.... how amazing.. Love the information, thank you so much for sharing and incredible knowing that you are stood taking this shot.

[Coni B.B.]

Very cool!

[David H.]

Wonderful shot they are amazing plants and so fascinating to look at. I'd never seen them before I went to Aus so this brings back some great memories

[Sharon Lee]

Love this, I like tall timbers. Fav

[marg]

Oh I adore the fig trees Dannielle - we love the cathedral fig tree up on the Atherton Tablelands. They're magnificent.

[Dana]

I love these trees in the rainforest but always find them hard to photograph. You have done a wonderful job. I like all the palm trees around it.

[Sean]

Wow. To quote Samuel L. Jackson....that is one big moth^#*@+ing tree!!!! Cool.

[Danielle Greenwood]

@danacarruthers Yes they are hard to capture and I still don't think I've done it complete justice.

[Jim]

you always find the best stuff

[Brian Baptie]

I was there on the weekend. Great shot!!

[Danielle Greenwood]

@yentlski oh thanks Jim! I'm lucky, I live in a beautiful place and go on holidays to beautiful places. Life is good. How's things with you?

[Danielle Greenwood]

@bdb3471 oh really! First time I'd been up that way, just beautiful!

[Gabrielle C]

That is a cool find. Nice shot ;)

[Betsie's Pinto Pony]

WHAT A GREAT SHOT! I'm amazed at nature and the story on how this tree survives.

[Danielle Greenwood]

@eyesofbetsie yes they are amazing, and SO gigantic!!

[jerry plume]

Wow! This is amazing!

[Bobbyj]

magnificent tree trunk!

[Ellen Young]

This is amazing Danielle! How Huge that tree must be! love the woods and the vines...FAV!

[Vicki K]

FAbulous shot!!

[Livia]

That is one amazing tree! Awesome perspective!

[Paul]

very harry potter or is it lord of the rings ;-) great capture

[Matthew Ballew]

wow, I want to hug this

[Carolyn White]

Wow! It's a very cool tree!!!

[Lora Gill]

That is a tree with some definite personality!

[reeni rubio-martinez]

this took my breath away. What a fantastic tree. i would of hugged it. did you hug it? fav :-)

[Danielle Greenwood]

@pearlgirl absolutely!! thanks!

[Linda]

Fantastic! Love this tree! FAV!