Monday 8 April 2013

Amazing ! Great Banyan Tree, Kolkatta, India

The Great Banyan tree is a Banyan Tree in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, Kolkatta, India. It is over 250 years old and in spread it is the one of the largest in the World. The Great Banyan looks more like a forest than an individual tree. The area occupied by the tree is about 14478.44 square metres. The present crown of the tree has a circumference of 1.08 kilometres and it has 2880 aerial roots reaching down to the ground.

And Banyan is the National tree of India !

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