Here's a tree that's I've been watching growing on top of a telephone poll. Been growing for about 2 years in Hawaii.

I don't know what kind of tree this is but this is what you find when you are a plant nut looking around for fig trees.

That's a first. I've seen trees growing in gutters but never on top a telephone pole. If it gets any bigger the wind will probably take it down.

The wind in this valley gets real strong. It knocks over trash bins all the time. The trees here don't break easily at all.

Wow! Talk about extending your reach by standing on the shoulders of tall giants. I hope it survives and bears fruit.

The heavy rains could be providing it with all the nutrition that it needs, which means that it could keep on going on for a while.

To be able to thrive mostly from just rain and sunshine is amazing. Another example of fig tree's resilience.

That's hilarious!!

I don't know if this is a fig tree but would be great if it were. Hopefully the city won't chop it down. It's fun watching how big this gets. It is paradise here, raining almost daily but then the sun comes out and there are rainbows. Colorful birds everywhere and even some escaped parrots fly around. The sound at night and morning is truly tropical rainforest jungle like .

fignatic   could it be a papaya?   That would be logical.     bird could have perched up there or there could have been a nest up there in the past with enough debris and droppings to start a plant.

Wow, the telephone poles/plants around my house are slackers!  If it does produce fruit it'll definitely be fruit for the birds (and line workers).  Thanks for the great picture.

wow that's pretty funny looking!

It could be a papaya.  The shape sort of fits with leaves only at the top and no branches.   Someday, I will have to get a zoom or binoculars and look more closely.

Hi,
It ain't root suckering So it is no figtree ;)
Funny. The funniest I've seen was a tree growing in between the branches of another one ... at 3m/10' of height ...
No dirt there either ...

Thanks Chucklikestofish.   How do you embed the picture into the post.  For some reason i could do it before, but no longer.  Only works as an attachment.   When I attach, it looks fine, but after it's attached, it goes sideways. 

Tree still there one year later.

It has the look of a young papaya tree.

I love it. 

I was thinking papaya too.

Survival of the fittest and that thing is definitely going to win lol

Let us know what it tastes like ;)