Great Banyan - live labyrinth (10 photos)

Great Banyan - tree with the world's largest area of ​​the crown. Located in the Indian Botanical cadu.

Age of the tree is estimated to be 200-250 years. After a lightning strike in 1925 was the splitting of the main trunk, so that the barrel had to cut. After this banyan was considered clonal colony, not a single tree as before. Banyan laid around the track length of 330 meters, but the tree continues to grow beyond it. Under such a tree can easily hide more than two thousand people at a time.





















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