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Ficus benghalensis
About
Ficus benghalensis, Ficus indica, or Ficus audrey commonly known as the banyan, banyan fig, audrey fig and Indian banyan, is a tree native to the Indian subcontinent. Specimens in India are among the largest trees in the world by canopy coverage. It is also known as a "strangler fig" because like many other trees in the genus Ficus it starts out as epiphyte, that is, leaning on another tree that it ends up enveloping.
- Family
- Moraceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Ficus benghalensis
- Slug
- ficus-benghalensis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Moraceae
- Genus
- Ficus
- Species
- benghalensis
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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