On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:40:16 -0800, Oren wrote:

On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:07:14 -0700, rbowman
wrote:

On 02/10/2019 02:41 PM, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:48:47 -0700, rbowman
wrote:

On 02/10/2019 07:27 AM, wrote:
They are weeds down here you can hardly kill. It is illegal to even
plant one in a lot of places. That one was 60-70 feet high before the
hurricanes knocked the top out (twice).
It sprayed tree limbs like this all over the yard

Did it bear figs?

Strangler fig trees take over trees and actually smother and kill
them. They are in the ficus family but not exactly the same. Fig trees
is another animal all together - you get figs.

Ficus and banyon trees can take over sewer pipes that cause havoc on
house foundations and plumbing pipes.

https://www.britannica.com/plant/strangler-fig-tree


That's useless. I remember seeing the banyan at Edison's place in Ft.
Myers. I guess it was in a pot when he planted it and now (well, back in
the '80s) it's its own little forest.


I I've been under that tree. The Ft Myers cemetery has one just as
big. I could tell stories about that tree. My brother used to drop a
white ghost sheet at cars, on a branch, via a small rope. Coops used
to hide behind the tree trunk to catch speeders. Carved names in it.
DO NOT stand on the sprawling roots when lightning strikes

Henry Ford and Edison were looking for rubber for ford tires

I still have some bamboo in my yard from Edison's experiments on the
light bulb filament material. He had the Koreshans growing different
varieties and the one I stole is the "clump" stuff that does not
spread. Unfortunately the Koreshan Park is over run with the stuff
that does. It is still pretty neat stuff. I lined the walls of 2
enclosures in my screen cage with split bamboo, all from the clump
behind my house that I planted 15-20 years ago. (harvested along the
river)