Assam Villagers Celebrate Birthday of 207 yrs Old Banyan Tree

Barpeta, June 15, 2019:

The villagers of Jalikheti in Barpeta district of Assam celebrated the birthday of a 207 years old Banyan Tree.

A stage was set with a 62-kg cake, live music, and ten thousand guests.

The residents of the village expressed happiness over their tree turning 207 years old.

Scholars from Korea and Japan also came to see the tree in the past and it attracts many tourists.

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It is to be mentioned that some fungus feeds on the branches of the tree and the river erodes the land it stands upon. So the villagers have organized a birthday party for the banyan tree with the hope that some may help save it.

About Banyan Tree: A banyan, also spelled "banian", is a fig that begins its life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice. "Banyan" often specifically denominates Ficus benghalensis (the "Indian banyan"), which is the national tree of the Republic of India, though the name has also been generalized to denominate all figs that share a common life cycle and used systematically in taxonomy to denominate the subgenus Urostigma.

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