#1: Re: [IBC] Semantics
Posted on 2005-08-27 16:05:14 by IrisCohen
In a message dated 8/27/05 12:02:14 AM, Carl Morrow writes:
> Parasitic plants have specialized structures that tap into the host plant
> and steal water and or nutrients from the host plant's vessel system. A
> plant that is just using another for support and not sustenance is not parasitic.
>
Remember, I said "a sort of parasite." The strangler fig does more than just
use the host for support; it eventually kills it. There may be a technical
term for it, but it sounds sort of parasitic (in the philosophical sense) to me.
<<Our stranglers start off as seedlings in forks of branches and their roots
grow down to the soil.>>
They do a lot of things differently in South Africa. ;-)
<< I have grown a root-over-tree (as opposed to root-over-rock) using a dead
Olive stump and a living Natal Wild Fig (Ficus natalensis).>>
Wonder if Nick Lenz has tried that yet?
Iris
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