Jim Coombes, a volunteer at Wahiawa Botanical Garden is
At bottom, Coombes holds the end of the seedling's dangling root
dwarfed by a Queensland Kauri Tree. He is holding the
bottom of a root from a ficus tree seedling that somehow
is growing more than 100 feet up the Kauri tree (below).
while standing on the ground 100 feet below. The seedling is about
one-third of an inch thick and the root has only about six more
feet to go to reach the ground. Coombs guessed that
the seedling got up in the tree by way of a bird.
