Do You Have Stranglers In Your Life?
The attached photograph is of a Matapalo, as it’s called in Spanish. I keep a picture of one like this in my Bible that Ron Smith gave me after he took a picture of it in Ecuador back in February. When I Google image search in English I find something similar called a “Strangler Fig tree” which is a name I like because it accurately describes what this thing does: it’s like a virus that grows onto the tree, usually in the roots when the tree is young or little. As the tree grows, so does the matapalo. It appears on the surface somewhat like it’s actually a part of the tree, but don’t be fooled–it’s not. This is made obvious by the picture provided. However, they are sucking the nutrients out of the ground that the tree could use, and so the tree is not capable of producing the right amount of fruit that it should. If a tree grows really large for years and years, so does this virus, and its false branches, which strangle the life of the tree.
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