A mix of trees that caught my eye yesterday

[Redsonic]

Three interesting trees within stone's throw of each other when I was walking the dog yesterday. Thought I would share:

Benji fig strangling a paperbark, with shari:





Casuarina (probably Allocasuarina littoralis) on a lean:



Interesting bark on a eucalyptus:

[Naimul]

hah, would have never have thought a benjamina to get aggressive and strangle another tree

[Redsonic]

hah, would have never have thought a benjamina to get aggressive and strangle another tree

Yep, those Benjis know how to get a free ride to the canopy There are another 3 or 4 in that general area, growing in tree forks.
More of interest to me was that a paperbark had succumbed (never seen one in a paperbark before), and the shari. I wonder if the shari was caused by the council slasher scraping by? I haven't seen too many shari in the mature figs around my area; you generally see a small, circular scar where a branch was lopped/lost, but not usually a linear wound. Surface roots, on the other hand are covered in wounds from the council slashers.
I have been wondering about what resistance trees have to epiphytic plants. I had been thinking that paperbarks shed their bark too often for epiphytes to take hold, until I saw this one. There is a Crepe Myrtle near my home that has been colonised by no fewer than 3 species of epiphytes. I think being deciduous leaves them open to hitchhikers that can grow fast in Winter.

Here is a very moth eaten Schefflera actinophylla growing in the Crepe Myrtle and the red arrow points to a ficus:



Gotta love the Crepe Myrtle trunk!