TREES THAT KILL EACH OTHER.
A singular tree in Cfuba is called the yaguey tree. Jt begins to grow at the top of another tree. The seed is carried by a bird, or wafted by the wind, and, falling into some moist, branching part, takes root and speedily begins to grow. It sends a kind of thin, string-like root down the bodv of tho tree, which is soon followed by others. In course of time these roofings strike the ground, and growth irmnediatelv commences upwards. New roofings continue to bo formed and get strength until the one tree grows as a net round the other. The outside ono surrounds and presses the inner, strangling its life and augmenting its own power. At length the tree within is Killed, and the parasite that has taken jxvssession becomes itself the tree. One might be disposed to compare it to thd English ivy, which, if allowed to entwine itself round a tree, does damage to tho tree and may eventually kill it.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16331, 21 January 1921, Page 6
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