Spreading Roots of the Strangler Ficus or Fig tree, Yucatan

 

Ficus cotinifolia, are Ficus trees known in MesoAmerica as  strangler figs, their roots are a major factor for the destruction of many Mayan temples (ruins) in Yucatan, Mexico.   Ancient Mayans used the wild strangler figs bark to handmake “Copo or Amatl”  paper, for books and codices.

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