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Denish C

Denish C

Posted: 20 Nov 2013

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Sri Lanka •
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banyan •
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Peradeniya Botanical Garden •

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"I love you my darling!" Banyan trees embracing another tree in Peradeniya Botanical Garden, Kandy, Sri Lanka. Eventually the banyans will strangle the host tree and it will die. The banyans will then also die as they have nothing to feed on but they will have passed on their genes through seeds. These type of banyan are therefore also known as "strangler figs". Murder in slow motion!

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 Denish C
Denish C
Thank you Joan. Also banyans come up sometimes in Somerset Maugham's and Kipling's writings.
10 years ago.

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