They grow fast and in abundance on the ground and soon climb around the trunk and each branch of the tree. They cannot strangle the branches but the leaves are huge and soon cover the whole tree, blocking the sunlight from reaching the leaves of the tree. Soon the leaves of the tree die, stopping further growth of the tree.
But some of the trees are strong, they remain dormant there for tens of years until somebody remove the creepers and they start growing again.
My farm used to have a lot of these monster trees, not huge but more than 40 years old. I cut the bases of these creepers, they slowly crumbled down as they died. But new ones tried to invade the trees again, hard and long battles with them in tropical climate!
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