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World's Tenth Largest Banyan Tree at Narora in Upper Ganga Ramsar Site, Uttar Pradesh, India


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1 Botanical Survey of India, Central Regional Centre, 10, Chatham Lines, Allahabad 211 002, India
2 State University of New York at Buffalo, 166 Lisbon Ave, Buffalo, New York 14214, United States
 

The king of Ficus species, Ficus benghalensis L. (Moraceae), or the banyan are large evergreen trees distributed throughout India, and also found in Bangladesh, Hawaii, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The species was first described in 1753 (ref. 4) with its specific epithet benghalensis denoting 'Bengal', the abode of the great banyan tree of Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, West Bengal, presently occupying 16,531 sq. m area and standing only on nearly 2900 prop ischolar_mains after having lost its mother trunk, for which it is encrypted in the Guinness World Records.
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Arti Garg
Botanical Survey of India, Central Regional Centre, 10, Chatham Lines, Allahabad 211 002, India
Pushpi Singh
Botanical Survey of India, Central Regional Centre, 10, Chatham Lines, Allahabad 211 002, India
Kartik Garg
State University of New York at Buffalo, 166 Lisbon Ave, Buffalo, New York 14214, United States

Abstract


The king of Ficus species, Ficus benghalensis L. (Moraceae), or the banyan are large evergreen trees distributed throughout India, and also found in Bangladesh, Hawaii, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The species was first described in 1753 (ref. 4) with its specific epithet benghalensis denoting 'Bengal', the abode of the great banyan tree of Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, West Bengal, presently occupying 16,531 sq. m area and standing only on nearly 2900 prop ischolar_mains after having lost its mother trunk, for which it is encrypted in the Guinness World Records.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv111%2Fi5%2F778-779