Strangler Fig and Melaleuca Trees

This week I am posting photos taken on my walk along the cycle path at Fingal Bay.

The melaleuca trees still seem to be thriving even though the strangler vine is trying its best to take hold.

We have been out with the walking group today and out for lunch afterwards. It has been a beautiful day.

Thanks for your comments on yesterday's photo Winter in the Woods.

I will post the photos taken today some time in the future.

[Lesley]

Great shot. Sounds like you’ve had a lovely day.

[Diana]

Fabulous capture of these wonderful shapes and textures.

[Nigel Rogers]

Interesting, never heard of Strangler vines, but I guess most vines could fall into that category.

[Peter]

Interesting tones, textures and patterns Babs:)

[Susan Wakely]

Great twists and turns.

[Joan Robillard]

Fantastic

[Babs]

@nigelrogers perhaps I should have said strangled fig rather than vine.

[Beryl Lloyd]

Love the colour tones and textures

[Valerie Chesney]

Super capture Babs!

[Dione Giorgio]

Fabulous capture.

[Rob Z]

I like the almost duotone effect in this...

[Brian]

Well found and captured. Babs, thanks for sharing your views of the cycle path to Fingal Bay. fav

[PhotoCrazy]

Wonderful!

[Wylie]

wonderful vines

[Merrelyn]

Those strangler figs are very aptly named.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

They are so interesting looking.

[Fisher Family]

A lovely woodland scene!

Ian

[Margaret Brown]

Nice tangling and woodland textures

[Renee Salamon]

Fantastic capture

[haskar]

Beautiful shot and textures.

[Carole Sandford]

A great shot!

[Pyrrhula]

A great find and capture. Awesome twisting tree.

[KWind]

Fabulous twisty trees.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

My husband just started taking vitamin products made from the Melaleuca. I am waiting until my current ones start to run out and then I will try some of the Melaleuca. Although it's not a good thing to have hanging around a tree, the Strangling Fig sure curls in an artistic way!

[LManning (Laura)]

How wonderful!

[Kathy]

Snaky trunks/vines.

[Jane Pittenger]

Strangler vine doesn’t sound good. Like our ivy?

[Suzie Townsend]

I have never seen anything like that. So interesting!

[Yao RL]

someone don't like to conform.

[Babs]

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Thanks. Definitely a survival of the fittest moment here. The Strangler Fig/Vine throttles other trees.

@olivetreeann There are a lot of different varieties of melaleuca, and I think the vitamin products you mention are from Tea Trees (Melaleuca alternifolia)

[Kathy A]

That vine is a great shape

[Cliff McFarlane]

Incredible shapes and a scary forrest

[Helen Jane]

you can see why it is called strangler.