Life with a Strangler Fig

A cartoon on the Strangler Fig fro my column with Roundglass Sustain. Did someone ask for more botany cartoons?

How the Fig Wasp runs the Fig Empire

A brief summary of one of nature's most intricate, fragile and delicate business partnerships that is the crux of the food chain for countless organisms! 

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These cartoons first appeared in Saevus magazine's story on the fig wasp in June 2013.

The Fig Tree

With 800 species in the genus Ficus, figs are the largest genera of flowering plants. They serve as the keystone species in several ecosystems in the country, feeding a wide array of frugivores such as birds, monkeys and bats and forming the very cradle of life in most of wild India. Here's a little ode to the fig!

Published in The Hindu Business Line this Saturday.