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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.
A National Historic Landmark since 1962, it encompasses more than 16,000 acres (6,500 hectares) and covers ocean waters stretching a mile (1.6 kilometres) offshore from the storied buildings.
The scorched banyan tree in the heart of fire-ravaged Lahaina is battling an insect infestation but is still generating new growth. Steve Nimz, the longtime arborist overseeing the recovery of the ...
The celebrated Bodhi tree still exists, but is very much decayed; one large stem, with three branches to the westward, is still green, but the other branches are barkless and rotten. The green branch perhaps belongs to some younger tree, as there are numerous stems of apparently different trees clustered together.
The banyan tree in Lahaina, when planted, was a sapling of 8 feet (2.4 m) height. Over the years it has grown to a height of over 60 feet (18 m) and spread into 16 major trunks, apart from the main trunk forming a large canopy of providing shade to the people from the blazing sun of Lahaina; it was intended as a part of a park.
In the context of the original article, the area and property was destroyed, not necessarily the tree, which is still standing and may recover. Just posting this here to head off anyone saying that the tree is dead. Still no official confirmation that is true, just preliminary secondhand reports. Viriditas 03:04, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
How Lahaina's more than 150-year-old banyan tree is coming back to life after devastating fire CLAIRE RUSH and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER August 7, 2024 at 6:45 AM
Tree worship is core part of religions which include aspects of animism as core elements of their belief, which is the belief that trees, forests, rivers, mountains, etc. have a life force ('anime', i.e., alive). Tsukise no Osugi is a 1,800-year-old sacred tree in Japan's Nagano Prefecture.