Banyan Tree
by Cindy Murphy
Title
Banyan Tree
Artist
Cindy Murphy
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This massive banyan tree is located at Rainbow Falls on the Big Island of Hawaii. The tree is somewhere in the ballpark of 500-600 years old. Birds disperse the seeds of banyans. When the seeds fall on the branches and stems of other trees and germinate, they grow roots down toward the ground. Over time, the aerial roots grow into grow into thick woody trunks, which, with age, can become indistinguishable from the main trunk. Banyan trees are also called strangler figs because eventually the mesh of roots growing around the host tree strangles it, and the tree dies and decomposes. The banyan then becomes a columnar tree with a hollow central core. Old trees also can spread out laterally using these prop roots to cover a wide area. img183 8730
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February 6th, 2020
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