Strangler Fig

Habitat:

In Central and /South Florida: coastal hardwood hammocks, cabbage palm hammocks, tropical hardwood hammocks and shrublands, temperate hardwood hammocks and shrublands, and along watercourses. Elsewhere in the Caribbean and Latin America: tropical dry forests, tropical deciduous forest, tropical semi-evergreen forest, tropical evergreen forest, cloud forest and in aquatic or subaquatic habitats.

Notes:

This one is growing around a palm. You can see it is a very tall tree towering over the palm. The main trunk is to the right of the palm and the tangle of roots holds the palm in an eventually fatal embrace. Last picture: "Bonus spotting" of raccoon snoozing high up the fig tree.