Banyan
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A banyan, also spelled banian, is a fig that develops accessory trunks from adjacent prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a s
Big Banyan Tree at Bangalore
A banyan tree at the Naples, Florida Preserve
Banyan tree
Ripe banyan fruits
The Great Banyan
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The Great Banyan is a banyan tree located in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Shibpur, Howrah, near Kolkata, India. The great banyan tree draws more visitors to the garden than its
Banyan
…that mature into thick, woody trunks, which can become indistinguishable from the primary trunk with age. These aerial roots can become very numerous. The Great Banyan of Kolkata, which has been tracked carefully for many years, currently has 2,880 supplementary trunks. Such prop roots can be sixty feet (eighteen…
The Great Banyan Tree
Full expanse of Great Banyan
An engraving of the tree published in 1794 by Thomas Maurice
Main Trunk Marker Stone. The original trunk measured 50' in diameter before it was damaged in two cyclones c. 1925, and had to be removed in order to preserve the remainder of the tree.