[I don't speak tree, but I imagine it saying, "Kiiiiiiiiill meeeeeeee."] On a hike in Lamington National Forest in southern Queensland, Australia, I saw a lot of trees getting engulfed by strangler fig trees. They are banyans and drop roots downward as they surround their host. The strangler surrounding this tree had a certain H. R. Giger-esque bio-horror quality to it, like a flora version of an Alien movie. I'm sure there's some 'trunk-burster' plant that will eventually and slowly emerge from this. All I could do is watch this in horror and then move on. While the world was in color, I felt that sepia-tone black & white was appropriate for this one. Here is a bigger version of the image. images/Photos/tree-face-hugger-sm.jpg