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By sprouting in the rainforest canopy, the strangler fig seedling is exposed to more

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Waxy leaves protect the strangler fig from drying winds and sunlight that it is exposed to high in the canopy. Perhaps the most amazing part of this extraordinary tree is its flower. What we think of as the fruit is really a hollow, flower-bearing structure called a cyconia.

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