By: Chesi
Species: Moreton Bay Fig
Date: 12.05.2019
About this flag
Moreton Bay Fig
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Element 1: Emblem
Reproductive - fig fruit
Its fruit is a key source of food in the rainforest. The seeds from the fruit, once consumed, are dispersed by birds and bats which enable the strangler fig to find new host trees and thus begin new life-cycles.
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Element 2: Pattern
Behaviour - strangler fig
Moreton Bay Figs are strangler figs which require a host tree. They begin their life as epiphytic – growing on the truck or branch of the host tree – and then over time envelope the host.