This is my post for #amazingnature photo contest hosted by 
I took these pictures with my phone when I visited my Aunt Billie in Fakahatchee Florida.
This is a strangler fig growing on a bald cypress tree, front view of this tree
this is the same tree but side view
they wrap their roots around the trees (different tree)
That is why they are called strangler figs, they have nothing to do with being a fig tree, they are a type of ficus tree.