"The woody creepers, themselves covered by other creepers, were of great thickness: of which I measured were two feet in circumference." Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
Here, Darwin is in a Neotropical forest (tropical forests of South and Central America). Creepers are woody vines (and stalkers on the internet). The largest woody vine on the east coast, US that I have seen was a wild grape and may have been 5-6 cm across. A two foot woody vine is awesome.
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| Dark understory of an Amazonian forest. |
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