 ... from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great network of coiling cables. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers which do not belong to it, but to one of the lianas that twines through its branches and sends down great rope-like...  Tropical Nature, and Other Essays - Page 62by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 356 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Belt - 1874 - 442 lehte
...simile being strengthened by the fact that many of the trees are really strangled in the winding folds. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers,...that twines through its branches and sends down great ropes like stems to the ground. Climbing ferns and vanilla cling to the trunks, and a thousand epiphytes... | |
 | Thomas Belt - 1874 - 452 lehte
...of foliage, winding round everything, and with lianas hanging from nearly every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great network of coiling cables, like another Samson, the simile being strengthened by the fact that many of the trees are really strangled... | |
 | Thomas Belt - 1888 - 454 lehte
...simile being strengthened by the fact that many of the trees are really strangled in the winding folds. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers,...branches. Amongst these are large arums that send down aerial roots, tough and strong, and universally used instead of cordage by the natives. Amongst the... | |
 | 1890 - 664 lehte
...of sight amongst a canopy of foliage, and with lianas hanging from nearly every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great...do not belong to it, but to one of the lianas that twine through its branches, and send down great rope-like stems to the ground. Climbing ferns and vanilla... | |
 | George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1892 - 672 lehte
...of sight amongst a canopy of foliage, and with lianas hanging from nearly every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great...ground. Climbing ferns and vanilla cling to the trunks, conias, leathery melastomae, and succulentstemmed, lop-sided 'leaved and freshcoloured begonias are... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - 492 lehte
...of sight amongst a canopy of foliage, and with lianas hanging from nearly every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great...flowers which do not belong to it, but to one of the 1 Hamerton's Landscape. lianas that twines through its branches and sends down great rope-like stems... | |
 | William E. Simmons - 1900 - 386 lehte
...beautiful flowers, which do not belong to it, but to one of the lianas that twines through its branchs and sends down great ropelike stems to the ground....thousand epiphytes perch themselves on the branches. Among these are large arums that send down aerial roots, tough and strong, and universally used instead... | |
 | William E. Simmons - 1900 - 356 lehte
...simile being strengthened by the fact that many of the trees are really strangled in the winding folds. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers,...it, but to one of the lianas that twines through its branchs and sends down great ropelike stems to the ground. Climbing ferns and vanilla cling to the... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1904 - 482 lehte
...of sight amongst a canopy of foliage, and with lianas hanging from nearly every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great...Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers 1 Hamerton's Landscape. which do not belong to it, but to one of the lianas that twines through its... | |
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