nice pictures depicting the tenacity of the roots to get a hold ... strength of roots amazes me
but the rock wall does not look like a monolith rather it seems one of those very deftly nicely tightly (god only knows how did they do it kind) set square cut black basalt or granite rock pieces and the roots have found the even miniscule little clefts the root tips sometimes in some can have acidic fluids I have read somewhere but i dont think they release h2so4 or HCL strong enough for long enough to drill a hole in granite face and malic acid or the other inhibitory hormone that's acid is not released out of its tip i dont think... regardless, I see man's handiwork that made the wall... so no roots did not need the acid anyway usha di Usha di =========== On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:28 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sharing a few pictures of the roots of *Ficus exasperata* deftly > penetrating a rock face in Madh, North Mumbai. A few wildlings with lobed > foliage can be seen at the bottom of the first image. > > Photographed on Madh Hill in October 2014. > > Best wishes, Viplav > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
