Banyan
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banyan-166-8667144
title:
Banyan
text:
A banyan, also spelled banian, is a fig that develops accessory trunks from adjacent prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a strangler habit that begin life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice. "Banyan" often specifically denotes Ficus benghalensis, which is the national tree of India, though the name has also been generalized to
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Subgenus of plants, the banyans
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyan
date created:
2003-05-16T22:07:31Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T08:57:18Z
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13
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