Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

It was three weeks after the fire and we started seeing little leaf sprouts.” Griffith says monkeypod trees lining Front Street helped protect the banyan from the worst of the windblown flames ...

The dead host tree often leaves the fig with a hollow trunk ... The unique features of Florida’s banyan or strangler fig make it a fascinating study in environmental symbiosis.