Strangler fig.

We have a different species in Florida, Ficus aurea. Do you know the species? Is it Ficus watkinsiana?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus_watki...

Yeah I know, they're everywhere round here and several flying fox colonies, the most probable culprit along with parrots, we've got more here than you can shake a stick at!

Strangler figs have an incredible life strategy - when an animals "drops" the seed of the fig at the top of a host tree, the fig sends roots down to the ground and encapsulates the host tree (but doesn't actively constrict it). Then the leaves out shadow the host trees leaves and the roots prevent the host from taking up water and nutrients - eventually the host tree dies and rots away and you're left with a hollow strangling fig!

The fig fruit also is a "compound flower" - the reproductive parts are on the inside of the fruit, accessed only by a tight symbiotic relationship with the fig wasp.