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Chinese Banyan
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Chinese Banyan
ative Photo: Dinesh Valke
Common name: Chinese Banyan, Laurel Fig, Malayan Banyan, Indian Laurel, Curtain fig • Chinese: 榕树 Rong shu • Hindi: चिलकन Chilkan, कामरूप Kamarup • Kannada: Peeladamara, ಪಿನಪಾಲ Pinapala, ಪಿನಿವಾಲ Pinivala • Konkani: Dhavidekgol • Malayalam: ഇത്തിയാത് Iththiyaath, കല്ലിത്തി Kalliththi • Manipuri: ꯈꯣꯡꯅꯥꯡ Khongnang • Marathi: नांदरूक Nandaruka, नांदरूख Nandarukha • Mizo: Ri-hnim • Nepali: जामु Jaamu • Sanskrit: नन्दीवृक्ष Nandivriksh • Tamil: Kallichchi • Telugu: Billa juvvi, Helodaga, Hema vudaga
Botanical name: Ficus microcarpa    Family: Moraceae (Mulberry family)
Synonyms: Ficus regnans, Ficus littoralis, Ficus dahlii
Chinese Banyan is a trees 15-25 m tall, crown wide, d.b.h. to 50 cmm with bark dark gray. Branches produce rust-colored aerial roots when old. Leaf-stalks are 5-10 mm, hairless; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, 4-8 x 3-4 cm, somewhat leathery, above dark green and shiny but dark brown when dry, base wedge-shaped, margin entire, tip blunt; basal lateral veins long, secondary veins 3-10 on each side of midvein. Figs arise in leaf-axils on leafy branchlets or on leafless older branchlets, paired, yellow to slightly red when mature, depressed spherical, 6-8 mm in diameter. Chinese Banyan is found in Tropical & Subtropical Asia to W. Pacific. Flowering: May-June.
Identification credit: Tabish Photographed in Kanakeshwar Forest, Maharahtra and GNDU Amritsar.
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