Oren wrote:
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:06:52 GMT, Norminn
wrote:


If it grows up and around the trunk, it can kill the tree.


Never, ever heard this. Do you mean a "Strangler Fig" that uses a host
and kills it?

I see healthy trees with ivy.

Ivy and figs very different .. it was definitely ivy, from a houseplant
transplanted outside. Florida. Strangler figs are trees, ivy a vine.