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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.
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 ...
The Great Banyan in the botanical garden near Kolkata, is a clonal colony of Indian Banyan with a crown circumference of over 330 meter. The area occupied by the tree is about 18,918 square metres (about 1.89 hectares or 4.67 acres).
The best-known landmark of the garden is The Great Banyan, an enormous banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) that is reckoned to be the largest tree in the world, at more than 330 metres in circumference. It partially inspired the novel Hothouse by Brian Aldiss. [ 12 ]
Ficus benghalensis, or Ficus indica commonly known as the banyan,and the banyan fig is a tree native to Bengal (Bangladesh and West Bengal) in the Indian Subcontinent. Specimens in India are among the largest trees in the world by canopy coverage.
Thimmamma Marrimanu is a banyan tree in Anantapur, located circa 35 kilometres (22 mi) from the town of Kadiri in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. It is present in the Indian Botanical Gardens and is more than 550 years old. Its canopy covers 19,107 m 2 (4.721 acres) [28] One of the largest trees, the Great Banyan is found in Kolkata, India.
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Vat Purnima is a Hindu festival related to the banyan tree, and is observed by married women in North India and in the Western Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat. [68] For three days of the month of Jyeshtha in the Hindu calendar (which falls in May–June in the Gregorian calendar ) married women observe a fast, tie threads around a ...