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Banyan Tree

Name: Banyan Tree

Scientific Name: Ficus benghalensis

The banyan (Ficus benghalensis) is one of more than 750 species of fig trees, each of which is pollinated only by its own species of tiny wasps that breed only inside the figs of their partner trees. Banyans are strangler figs. They grow from seeds that land on other trees.

 

It is said that at one time more than 10,000 people can sit under its shade at one time. It is an evergreen tree. Its branches spread out and send trunk-like roots to the ground in order to support itself. It grows to a height of more than Banyan Tree 21 meters and lives for many years. Hindus say a banyan tree at Jyotisar is the one Krishna stood beneath when he delivered the sermon of the Bhagavad Gita. For thousands of years, people have used banyans as a source of medicine. Today in Nepal, people use banyan leaves, bark, and roots to treat more than twenty disorders.