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Carnivorous trees: trees that kill other trees – they grow around an existing tree, extending their root system like tentacles suffocating the older trees and eventually enveloping the whole tree with new bark. Meanwhile, the older tree slowly withers and dies, leaving a hollow interior inside the new tree, which flourishes. The whole process can take more than 100 years. Kakamega Forest is famous for these carnivorous trees, along with Colobus monkeys and hundreds of bird species.
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Wow. Talk about the law of the jungle. That is cooooooooooool. I want to learn more!
ReplyDeleteHere, trees can share/steal nutrients from each other if they're tapped into the same micorrhizal (fungal root) network. But that's rather less dramatic.