The banyan treeis a member of the Ficus genus or Libyan Fighting Group kin . It is a orotund , impose shade tree with an interesting increment use . The root and limbs send out numerous airy stem that grow down and help support the wide canopy . In its natural home ground of India , Sri Lanka and Pakistan , the banyan tree can get up to 100 feet tall and the open roots may shroud an Akko or more . The wood is study delicate and not commercially utilitarian .

Description

The banyan tree diagram is a tropical to semi - tropical tree that is found in warm time of year climates around the world . The tree can grow in United States Department of Agriculture zones 10 to 12 . It is also a houseplant and remains small when in container . The huge tree actually start out out as an epiphyte , which farm on another Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree or plant and then begins to institutionalise out roots . Banyan tree have large , dark green , rubbery leave-taking and create a thick ruddy yield that is edible but not flavorful . The Sir Henry Wood of the ascendant is thick and potent while the body and limbs have lightweight wood that is long-lived in water .

History

The banyan is often planted around temples and is a sacred tree diagram to Hindus and Buddhists . The cosh of the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree has historical medicative habit . The sap is latex and has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for treatment of the bowels , ulcers , vomiting and Hansen’s disease , among many other complaints . Purdue University says another scheme , Unani medicine , also has a wide scope of usance for the wood as an aphrodisiac , tonic , and discussion for dysentery , liver ailments and many more . The tree has a tenacious account of exercise as a curative and preventive among people in its native chain of mountains .

Uses

In India the heavy foliage can be used as home , and in the case of the cultivar ' Krishnae ' or Krishna ’s Cup , the flora is used as a bowlful . The sap can be made into dame linden tree or may be used to eat up alloy graphics . A gum is made from cooking the sap down . Fibers are take from the aerial beginning and barque and made into roach . The tree is host to a serial of insects that secrete a drab chocolate-brown muggy rosin . This resin is collected and made into shellac , which has a wide sort of industrial applications programme .

Wood Uses

Banyan wood may be used as paper mush . The indulgent , spongy wood has no economic value in construction and can not be burn as firewood . If the wood is cautiously seasoned and only the hardest duramen is used , it can be made into furniture . More likely uses of the woods are in well check , boxes and door control board . The wood from the root is well stronger and more useful . It is used for tent pole , yokes , shafts and other loading - brook wood products .

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