His tree, which later became the sacred tree of Buddhism, is also a strangler fig. The only victims of these ... this is what we call it when a plant grows on another plant. In temperate zones ...

this indoor plant is also loved by interior designers for its striking architectural shape. Native to western Africa's tropical jungles, the fiddle-leaf fig is actually nicknamed the ‘strangler ...

Example of a strangler fig in Kerala, India. L. Shyamal/Wikimedia ... The young tree that results then develops as an epiphyte: this is what we call it when a plant grows on another plant. In ...