Size: 20-45 meters in height

Life span: Strangler figs can live for hundreds of    years.

Predators:  Figs are eaten by birds and mammals.
 

Adaptations:  
The rainforest ground level has little light and water so the strangler ficus has found a way to avoid that.  It grows on top of trees to get the sun and competes with its host to get the soil and water it needs. 
 

Interesting Facts:

• The strangler fig is called strangler because it grows on top of a tree and slowly squeezes it to death until it stays with a hollow log.
• This fig competes with its host and that is another way the host dies.
• The strangler tree is called matapalo in spanish which means killer treebecause of the way it kills trees.

Bibliography:  (go to MLA site)
12 Mar. 2003
                        <http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/plants/worldplants/picpops/tropical_fig.shtm>