A huge giant of a tree in Malaysia can be strangled by a fig tree or Malayan Banyan or jejawi..
Whenever a Malaysian gardener sees a young ara sapling growing inc racks in old drains and walls, he would quickly pull it out. It can grow into a large tree with stout prop roots and a curtain of slender aerial roots.
The Oriental Pied Hornbills also love the Malayan figs.
Aerial roots of a fig or ara tree: 
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