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The really cool part of the Botanical Gardens is the great banyan tree. It stretches right over the path!

The whole picture, what looks like a forest, is one single tree with all its prop-roots keeping it spreading. It is still alive but the central truck has been removed as it was rotting. I thought that was pretty amazing that the tree could still be a tree without its trunk.

The signboard says the tree is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the widest canopy at 1.5 hectares and with about 2880 prop-roots.
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Source India - Kolkata - 11 - Great Banyan Tree
Author McKay Savage from London, UK
Camera location22° 33′ 24.03″ N, 88° 17′ 28.62″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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29 June 2008

22°33'24.026"N, 88°17'28.615"E

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