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 The aerial roots of the Baniyan tree will eventually be transformed into trunks. Photo: Suzanne Wejland. |
 Suzanne resting under the Baniyan tree. Photo: Erik Åhlander. |
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S*Poo Nai's Baniyan is named after the holy baniyan (or banyan) tree which usually is planted at the temple or in the middle of the village. In the shadow of the tree people meets, have tea (chai) or the village council has its meeting. In the baniyan tree, Ficus benghalensis, as well as in several other species of Ficus, a seed can germinate in the top of another species eg. a palm tree. The Ficus plant send its roots to the ground where it slowly turns into trunks which eventually will strangle its host. The Baniyan tree is a close relative to many common indoor plants like weeping fig, fiddle leaf fig, rubber tree, climbing ficus etc. |
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 Baniyan tree in the garden in Adyar outside Chennai (Madras) about 1914. From: Fia Öhman 1916. Under Indiens Himmel. |
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S*Poo Nai's Norwegian Forest Cats Updated January 21, 2001 Text: Suzanne Wejland (suzanne.wejland@telia.com) |
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