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I took this photo last year at Curtain Fig National Park in #Australia.

This spectacular strangler fig is nearly 165 ft (50m) tall, with a trunk circumference of 128ft (39m) & estimated to be >500 years old! #nature

#nature #Australia
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llewelly
llewelly
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I am guessing the host tree it originally grew on is long dead?
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🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼
🌼 Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 🌼
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Wow, what a sight! And yes, I am curious about the tree it grew on as well. Strangler gigs, wow 💚
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Ian Matters 🇦🇺
Ian Matters 🇦🇺
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A possibility dumb science question: we’re told that nuclear power plants do no produce carbon dioxide and therefore do not contribute to planetary warming.

Nuclear power plants work by converting matter into energy and presumably therefore have a positive net energy contribution to the planet. Does or does not this energy contribute to planetary warming?

I do not have a science degree but have worked in scientific fields for much of my life.

Thanks. 🇦🇺

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David de Groot
David de Groot
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It's pretty amazing eh? So is the other large fig down the road, The Cathedral Fig.
Absolutely massive strangler fig growing on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North Queensland. The "trunk" is made up of hundreds of root tendrils that encompassed the original (non-fig) tree. The canopy is full of epiphytes such as Crows Nest Ferns. The roots that make it to the ground spread out along the forest floor, radiating out from the tree for about 50m or so.
Massive fig tree with a wooden raised boardwalk next to it. Some people walk along the board walk and read the sign nearby, completely dwarfed by the tree.

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