When a strangling fig tree meets the stubborn lime rocks that characterize the karst landform, the impasse unexpectedly contributes to another miniature Green Stone Forest within the massive rain forest in Xishuangbanna, southwest China's Yunnan Province.

Watch this episode of CGTN's "Silent Wisdom" series to find out how competitions could be settled in nature.

(Cover photo by CGTN's Wang Yilin.)

(Video filmed by Wang Yilin and Zhang Hao, edited by Zhang Hao. ) 

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