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11 unusual facts about banyan


Bhura Hayal

It is not known with certainty, when exactly the area was inhibited, however Banyan trees with water ponds underneath, scattered around the adjoining small villages, suggest that it dates back to thousands of years before probably to Buddha's time or even before.

Canlaon

The Banyan Tree inside the OISCA Farm is estimated by botanists from Silliman University to be around 1,328 years old.

Devanambattu

Kattuputhur village has huge pond surrounded with Banyan trees which makes the place scenic.

National Transformation Movement

The original NTM contested two seats in the 1995 General Elections using the Banyan tree as its symbol.

Nigrodharama

Nigrodhārāma was a Banyan grove near Kapilavastu, where a residence was provided for the Buddha when he visited the city in the first year after his Enlightenment.

Scottish Conservative Party

Between 2007 and November 2012, the party logo was a sketched outline of a Banyan (or Indian Fig) Tree - said to trumpet the party's green credentials and modern approach to multiculturalism.

Temple of the Six Banyan Trees

The Temple of the Six Banyan Trees was originally called the Baozhuangyan Temple, but during the Northern Song Dynasty, a writer called Su Shi wrote the inscription Liu Rong (Six Banyan Trees) because of the six banyan trees he saw there and it has since been called the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees.

The Crew of the Flying Saucer

Watt did work with both Cline and Meghrouni again after the Crew Of The Flying Saucer had completed its run; Cline was the sole guitarist on Watt's second solo album Contemplating The Engine Room, and has toured and recorded with him as part of both another Watt project band, The Black Gang, and in the jazz/punk group Banyan.

The Rosales Saga

The object that connects and binds these families is the “giant Balete tree" located at the plaza of Rosales town.

Vadakkunnathan Temple

Shiva stopped at a spot, now Thrissur, for his seat and later he and his party disappeared and Parashurama saw a bright and radiant Shiva linga at the foot of a huge banyan tree.

Vallabhapuram

On the opposite bank of the river lies Kurvapur, a place in Karnataka state where Lord Sri Pada Sri Vallabha used to meditate under a banyan tree.


Aerial root

They are found in diverse plant species, including epiphytes such as orchids, tropical coastal swamp trees such as mangroves, the resourceful banyan trees, the warm-temperate rainforest rātā (Metrosideros robusta) and pōhutukawa (M. excelsa) trees of New Zealand and vines like Common Ivy (Hedera helix) and poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans).

Ananth Hegde Ashisara

He has put efforts to get arboreal heritage tag to 10 old trees of Karnataka, which include Big Banyan tree, Bangalore (400 years old), Adansonia digitata - Malvaceae, Bijapur Taluk (600 years old), "Pilali" tree Ficus micro corpus, Banavasi, Uttara Kannada etc.

Balete

Balete tree, a tree in the Philippines related to the banyan.

Banyan Systems

In 1988 Banyan announced a new server, based on the Intel 80386 microprocessor, known as the Corporate Network Server (CNS).

In early 1990 Banyan released a new version of the CNS, using an Intel 80486 processor.

Banyan VINES

Banyan increasingly turned to StreetTalk as a differentiator, eventually porting it to NT as a stand-alone product and offering it as an interface to LDAP systems.

Bidsar

One Banyan tree is planted by late Shree Ramu Ram Garhwal.

Chan Heng Chee

Like Tharman Shanmugaratnam (the current Finance Minister), Ho Kwon Ping (a former journalist dissident and now the chairman of the Banyan Tree leisure group), and other former political critics, she is part of a small group of well-educated dissidents who have subsequently been appointed into high profile positions in the PAP Government, or who have otherwise become part of the establishment.

Cooum River

According to the draft ecological plan, floral species such as Indian almond, black wattle, sacred fig, madras thorn, Indian mulberry, neem, banyan, magizham, Indian cork tree, punnai, sirukkambil, karumugai, shenbagam, bayur tree, kadamba, pavazha malli, vetiver grass, palmorasa, agave, lemon grass and subabul would be part of species along the nature trail which would play a role in erosion management.

Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib

Records of a court case in 1870 mention a Guru's garden and a Nihangs' well being in existence here.In 1920, during a survey for the proposed construction of Sirhind-Patiala-Jakhal railway line, it appeared that the banyan tree under which had sat Guru Tegh Bahadur would have to be removed.

Guruvayurappan

Manjula stood near the banyan tree crying and Poonthanam who passed by told her "Guruvayurappan knows what's in your heart, keep the garland on the banyan tree and he will take it".

Indian fig

Ficus benghalensis, a species of banyan tree also known as East Indian fig.

Vest

; Banyan: This Indian garment is commonly called a vest in Indian English.