Picnic under a banyan tree - a memory
@allknowing (153544)
India
March 19, 2021 6:04am CST
A banyan tree gives out aerial roots that travel vertical to the ground creating more plants around it
Such a tree exists in India that has created thousands of such trees around it growing into a veritable forest. There are roads running under it and so does traffic.
Tourists including me have spent time there picnicking.
The image shows the single banyan tree - now a forest.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
19 Mar 21
Is this picture from botanical garden, Kolkata?? I have some fade memory of that huge Banyan tree when I visited it as a child. I was mesmerized.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
19 Mar 21
It is a wikimedia image and is called Acharya_Jagadish_Chandra_Bose_Indian_Botanic_Garden_-_Howrah
It is amazing that unless one tells you one cannot believe that is just one tree.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
19 Mar 21
@allknowing It's the same tree I am talking about. That's in Howrah only. And it's really mesmerizing..I have a faded memory. But such miracles of nature really give you goosebumps.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
20 Mar 21
@arunima25 We were on a Darjeeling package holiday and Calcutta was included in the package.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
20 Mar 21
@Shavkat It is India on the Eastern side. Hope you will get to visit it. India is a place for tourists.
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@Shavkat (141906)
• Philippines
20 Mar 21
@allknowing I hope I could visit this place in the near future.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
20 Mar 21
Which trees have aerial roots besides the Banyan tree?
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
20 Mar 21
@wolfgirl569 The roots there grow underneath but aerial.ly We have such trees - areca palm, curry leaf, etc.
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@wolfgirl569 (135690)
• Marion, Ohio
20 Mar 21
@allknowing Weeping willow trees do that. The roots will spread out and new ones come up.
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
21 Mar 21
And to think that they are a creation of just one tree!!!
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@JudyEv (382016)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Mar 21
@allknowing It's jaw-droppingly amazing. 
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