Curtain Fig Tree
Giant strangler fig, its curtain of aerial roots draped across two collapsed, long-dead host trees.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Curtain Fig Tree near Yungaburra, on Queensland's Atherton Tableland, follows a five-hundred-year-old strangler fig through the failure of not one but two rainforest host trees. You will hear how Ficus virens spreads by seed, wraps its host, and outlasts it, and what happened when the first dying host began to fall. Listen for how the tree's famous hanging curtain traces the exact line of that collapse. Best heard at the boardwalk rail, looking straight up into the roots.
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