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
Strangler fig
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Strangler fig is the common name for a number of tropical and subtropical plant species in the genus Ficus, including those that are commonly known as banyans.
Banyan
…develops accessory trunks from adjacent prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a strangler habit that begin life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice…
Ficus watkinsiana on Syzygium hemilampra, Australia
A fig seedling with thread-like roots on an unknown host
The trunk of a bald cypress, encircled by fig roots
A strangler fig. The supporting tree, now dead, can also be seen