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Wild Banyantree (Shortleaf fig)
What you are seeing in this picture is the aerial root system of ths tree. (Ignore the large green leaves in the foreground).
Wild banyantree is an erect, evergreen to semi-deciduous shrub to tree with aerial roots, growing 40 to 50 feet tall.
Its minute flowers have both male and female parts and are hidden, being contained in yellow or red structures (syconia) in which the flowers line the insides. They are pollinated by tiny wasps.
''Ficus citrifolia'', also known as the shortleaf fig, giant bearded fig or wild banyantree, is a species of banyan native to southern Florida, the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America south to Paraguay. It is distinguished from the closely related Florida strangler fig mainly by the finer veining in the leaves.
