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The Great Banyan is a banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) located in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Shibpur, Howrah, near Kolkata, India. [1] The great banyan tree draws more visitors to the garden than its collection of exotic plants from five continents.
Kaya Kalp Vriksh or Great Banyan Tree is a Biodiversity Heritage Site in Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India. It became the first biodiversity heritage site of the state on 16 December 2021. The tree spans over 3.5 acres of land and is about 300 years old.
The great banyan tree is revered by the people of Indian-origin religions such as Hinduism (including Vedic, Shaivism, Dravidian Hinduism), Buddhism and Jainism. A small temple dedicated to Thimmamma is beneath the tree. The residents of the region strongly believe that if a childless couple worships Thimmamma they will beget a child in the ...
Ficus benghalensis, Ficus indica, or Ficus audrey commonly known as the banyan, banyan fig and Indian banyan, [2] is a tree native to the Indian Subcontinent.Specimens in India are among the largest trees in the world by canopy coverage.
A huge banyan tree spread across 2.5 acres of land inside the Pirbaba's Taroda sacred grove located in Amravati district, Maharashtra. The tree is considered sacred. Cholti Kheri sacred tree in Fatehgarh Sahib district of Punjab. Pemgiri, with 3.5 acres spread it is largest banyan tree of Maharashtra, 16 km west from Sangamner on Pune-Nasik ...
The banyan tree is the oldest living one on Maui but is not a species indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands. How Lahaina's more than 150-year-old banyan tree is coming back to life after devastating fire
A large banyan tree in the heart of Old Lahaina that was badly scorched by the fires that ransacked Maui appears to have emerged from the flames still standing.
Banyan trees figure prominently in several Asian and Pacific religions and myths, including: In Hinduism, the leaf of the banyan tree is said to be the resting place for the god Krishna. In the Bhagavat Gita, Krishna said, "There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down, and the Vedic hymns are its leaves. One who knows ...