Ficus tree roots by goodoleboy
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Captured 2/10/12, outside a local school.
Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending into the semi-warm temperate zone. The common fig is a temperate species native to southwest Asia and the Mediterranean region, which has been widely cultivated from ancient times for its fruit, also referred to as figs. The fruit of most other species are also edible.
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Comments (7)
eekdog
Tremendous roots, great captures and info.
rto3d
great shot
starship64
They're really quite amazing, aren't they?
VDH
Interesting nature shots !!
MagikUnicorn
RodS
That's such a cool tree! Great shot!
anahata.c
Another of your scintillating tree-root studies, with this pale and very articulate tree cutting its way through the ground it sits upon. It looks like it's either on very fine soil, or sand. And I can't get over how pale-gray it is: You've posted these types of trunks many times before, and you always capture their very light and sinewy forms, how they snake all over the ground. (They must be native to fine topsoil, because so much of the roots stand above ground; as if the soil's not tight enough to hold them...) The top shot gives us the context---which is amazing because the wall behind it is nearly the same hue as the tree. And the bottom 2 are all bottom and roots...like a huge land-based octopus's squirming their way across the land. Beautiful shots---and a beautiful sight: something we have nowhere in chicago---with clarity and rhythm and flow. And I never knew until now that "ficus" referred to figs! I always thought figs popped out of the ground dried and on those little 'strings'...I know they grow fresh, but I've never seen them other than dried. Wonderful trio of shots.