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@@@@@Beyond it, the road swung inland and the foliage crowded up in a way I found first interesting, then awesome, then claustrophobic The masses of greenery towered to a height of twelve feet at least, the round leaves streaked a dark vermillion that looked like dried blood "What is that stuff, Daddy?" "SeagrapeThe green stuff with the yellow flowers is called wedeliaThere's 154 also rhododendronThe trees are mostly just slash pine, I think, although-" She slowed to a crawl and pointed to the left, craning to look up through the corner of the windshield to do so"Those are palms of some kind The road bent still farther inland, and here the trunks flanking the road looked like knotted masses of gray ropeTheir roots had buckled the tarWe'd be able to get over now, I judged, but cars passing this way a few years hence? No way "Strangler fig," I said "Nice name, right out of Alfred HitchcockAnd they just grow wild?" "I don't know," I said She bumped the Chevy carefully over the tunneling roots and drove onWe were down to no more than five miles an hourThere was more strangler fig growing out of the masses of seagrape and rhododendronThe high growth cast the road into deep shadowIt was impossible to see any distance at all on either sideExcept for an occasional wedge of blue or errant sunray, even the sky was goneAnd now we began to see sprays of sawgrass 155 and tough, waxy fiddlewood growing right up through cracks in the tar My arm began to itchThe one that wasn't thereI reached to scratch it without thinking and only scratched my still-sore ribs, as I always didAt the same time the left side of my head started to itchThat I could scratch, and d