Aerial root use

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Here's something all you tropical fans can aspire to with aerial roots:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2013/05/08/root_bridges_of_cherrapunji.html

Amazing...There is something to using drinking straws to direct and encourage aerial roots in bonsai. Instead of using drinking straws to encourage rooting on these trees (Which are ficus), the builders use hollow tree trunks...
 
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