Moraceae
31-Banyan tree
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| Ficus benghalensis, Banyan tree, very large tree. This species also starts out like the strangler fig, but the areial roots are so prolific that you can get a "forest" composed of just one banyan fig. Ficus benghalensis is native to India, and one banyan tree was found there consisting of over 300 individual "trunks." The person under the tree in this image is Jeff Zimpfer, one of the former teaching assistants in PB260. |