The official scientific name of the banyan tree is Ficus benghalensis. It belongs to the Moraceae family, which is the fig or mulberry family. Known as India's National Tree, it has vast medicinal and ...

Some 550 years ago, so a story goes, the poet-sage Kabir was on a silt island in India's Narmada River. He was brushing his teeth with a twig. When he flung his toothbrush to the ground, up sprang a ...

The Banyan is India’s national tree. Curiously, the English word banyan originatesin the Indian word bania, the name given to the tree by early European traders who came to the subcontinent. When they ...

Spanning nearly two acres and multiple centuries, the banyan tree in the heart of Hawaii’s wildfire-ravaged town of Lahaina literally and figuratively looms large. Its sprawling canopy and dozens of ...

One of the first places Timothy Griffith Jr. went after the deadliest wildfire in more than a century ripped through Maui's west coast was Lahaina's historic banyan tree. The chief arborist for Maui ...