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  2. Banyan - Wikipedia

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    A large banyan tree lives in Cypress Gardens, at the Legoland theme park located in Winter Haven, Florida. It was planted in 1939 in a 5-gallon bucket. [33] Adayar Banyan Tree, located in the Theosophical Society Campus in Adayar, Chennai, India, is around 450 years old. The banyan tree from Miary, Madagascar which is said to be 1,700 years old ...

  3. Ficus benghalensis - Wikipedia

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    Ficus benghalensis, or Ficus indica 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.

  4. The Great Banyan - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Strangler fig - Wikipedia

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    Their seeds, often bird-dispersed, germinate in crevices atop other trees. These seedlings grow their roots downward and envelop the host tree while also growing upward to reach into the sunlight zone above the canopy. [2] [3] An original support tree can sometimes die, so that the strangler fig becomes a "columnar tree" with a hollow central ...

  6. How Lahaina's more than 150-year-old banyan tree is coming ...

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    The banyan tree is the oldest living one on Maui but is not a species indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands. When a deadly wildfire tore through Lahaina on Maui last August, the wall of flames ...

  7. Why the wildfire loss of Lahaina’s banyan tree is so ... - AOL

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    An anchor of Banyan Tree Park, the banyan tree is soon as an iconic figure in nature. According to the Hawaii Ocean Project, the tree was originally gifted from India and is the biggest tree on ...

  8. Lahaina banyan tree emerges as charred but still standing in ...

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    The banyan tree was just an 8-feet sapling when it was planted in 1873 as a gift shipped from India, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first Protestant mission in Lahaina, which at the ...

  9. Lahaina Banyan Tree - Wikipedia

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    The banyan tree is located close to the port in the historical Lahaina town, which was the former capital of Hawaii. It is the oldest banyan tree in Hawaii. [3] The banyan tree, received as a gift by the Smith family in the 1870s, was planted on April 24, 1873, at Lahaina by William Owen Smith, the then sheriff of Lahaina.