Life is a struggle in the rainforest, and elaborate means are used to reach the light and to survive.
This huge Curtain Fig on the Atherton Tableland is famous, but not unique.
Once the fig had strangled the host tree, it fell over on to another tree, and the vertical roots descended to feed it, forming a curtain.
On another walk, this one showed the process of development of those curtains.
But figs are not orderly in their strangling.
Or gentle. This could look like an embrace but it has a relentlessness about it that seems cruel. Anthropomorphic, I know.
Where do root and trunk differentiate? Incredible colours and shapes kept catching my eye in this fantasy world.
I have no idea what is going on in this miniature strangling scenario, but it seems not of this world. And is it plant or creature or something in between?
Glad it struck you so too Joyce.
Beautiful