A warm sea-breeze rustled through the banyan trees, with their thick, shining arch of foliage.
Splendid banyan trees give grateful shelter to the traveller.
The banyan is almost a colony of trees in itself, having, apparently, a dozen trunks in one.
The banyan tree has to be seen to be understood.
We were hiding amid the roots of a great banyan tree, and could see well.
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Some oldbanyantrees can form an entire wood.
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Thebanyantree starts out growing in one place.
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Perhaps on a mild day, we would allow those people to be hung upside down by their toes in the nearestbanyantree.
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In fact, even a little seed would have been blown up into a sort ofbanyantree in no time.
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In almost every village there is someone who sits under abanyantree, who knows everything about everything, and who is apt to have a very considerable influence.
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Such an enveloped dead tree eventually rots away so that thebanyanbecomes a columnar tree with a hollow central core.
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Women pray for their husbands by tying threads around abanyantree on this day.
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The lateral branches grow vertically downward into the soil and acts as pillars; example:banyan.
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The typicalbanyanwas cut "en chemise", with the sleeves and body cut as one piece.
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Despite the name nightgown, thebanyanwas not worn for sleeping.
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They put them at the foot ofbanyantrees.
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It has abundant plant life including ironwood (bois noir) andbanyantrees.
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Once a yearbanyantrees shed leaves, but this particular tree never sheds its leaves which keeps it green even in times of drought.
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Thebanyanmay be decorated with flowers or strewn with rice and other offerings.
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He asked abanyantree whose it was; it said it was his; he ordered it to fall down.
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