"A very remarkable development of s takes place in the "" of Mexico and Florida, which begins life as a small , from seeds dropped by birds on the boughs or trunks of trees. When it gets well started, the young plant sends down enormous aërial roots, which find their way to the ground, and in time so completely envelop the host that it is literally strangled to death ... When this support is removed, the sheathing roots take its place and becomes to all intents and purposes the stem of the fig tree, which now leads an independent life."
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Eliza Frances Andrews
(August 10, 1840 – January 21, 1931) was an American journalist, essayist, novelist, educator, botanist, and author of two textbooks on botany. She donated more than 3000 plant specimens that she collected with to the Alabama Department of Agriculture.
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