“The root bridges, some of which are over a hundred feet long, take ten to fifteen years to become fully functional, but they’re extraordinarily strong […] some of the ancient root bridges used daily by the people of the villages around Cherrapunji may be well over 500 years old.”
Health-and-safety commissars in the West would no doubt have a fit over the idea of these in the USA or UK. But one wonders if the same techniques could be used by artists to create giant Cthulhu-esque living structures? It’d certainly go way beyond a timid weaving of willow-wands.
