The least perching height value was 1.2 m on a
buttress root. Several individuals foraged actively for insects, mostly termites that flourished on the old trees' trunks.
Stone adzes would have been used to cut and shape the plank from the
buttress root of a tree and the design carved with a small sharp tool such as a hand-held flake, bone chisel or boar tusk (although this has not been confirmed).
As he slowly advanced, internal forces moved me forward to inspect his biz pole with its seven figures carved from a mangrove tree trunk whose
buttress root served as a phallic extension.
There are sturdy
buttress roots below and pen-thin palms towering above the forest canopy.
A thick mist swirls through the forest, where the muddy ground has turned to soup, and
buttress roots protrude from the earth like veins in a weightlifter's arm, providing ample seclusion for Costa Rica's rainbow collection of frogs.
Crook MJ, Ennos AR, Banks JR (1997) The function of
buttress roots: a comparative study of the anchorage systems of buttressed (Aglaia and Nephelium ramboutan species) and non-buttressed (Mallotus wrayi) tropical trees.
I'm surrounded by towering trees, huge
buttress roots, thick dangling vines, giant ferns, the hoots and calls of countless birds and mammals and the incessant whine of crickets.
Curved
buttress roots extend their grip across a forest floor wriggling with life including maggot-like leeches that stick to my skin like superglue.
Curved
buttress roots extend their grip across a forest floor wriggling with life - including maggot-like leeches that stick to my skin like superglue.
Choose from the following: chlorophyll;
buttress roots; cacti; frond; fruit; root; leaf; pith; stigma; photosynthesis; bark; stem; tubers