Potential buyers talked about building a deck to incorporate the tree and dreamed about living like the Swiss Family Robinson ...

Chiara Goia The famous tree, shown from the distance, is 100 miles north of Bangalore. Its canopy spans about five acres. Chiara Goia The trunk of Thimmamma Marrimanu. The banyan tree is a type of ...

Banyans usually grow on hardwood hammocks. They are considered a keystone species, essential to the hardwood tropical ...

This living giant, a banyan tree or Ficus Benghalensis ... Struck by two cyclones, its main trunk succumbed to fungal infection. The solution? Amputate the trunk to save the rest of the organism.

Among those with hope is the Indian banyan tree planted more then 150 years ago on April 24, 1873. The tree was a single trunk and eight feet tall when it was put into the ground to mark the 50th ...

Banyan Tree Park has had the same cement pavers around ... “We’re giving the banyan roots — which are now more like trunks — more space.” The foundation is seeking a contractor to ...

Vat Savitri Vrat is a sacred Hindu festival observed by married women to pray for their husband's long life and a harmonious ...

An iconic banyan tree in an historic community south ... of the home who had owned it since 2000. She said the tree, whose trunk and aerial root mass measured 22 feet by 24 feet, made selling ...

Most of us recognize and appreciate Banyan trees ... The dead host tree often leaves the fig with a hollow trunk when it decomposes, providing more nutrients as it decays. Need a break?