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by vram22
2017 days ago
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> From walking around it, you could think it is several individual trees, because it's branches bend downward, touch the soil, grow new smaller roots there, and then go up again. The same happens with some banyan trees, in a big way[1]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyan [1] See section "List of historical banyan trees" at above link, and link below. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Banyan Also, interestingly (from first link): ' Older banyan trees are characterized by aerial prop roots that mature into thick, woody trunks, which can become indistinguishable from the primary trunk with age. Old trees can spread laterally by using these prop roots to grow over a wide area. In some species, the prop roots develop over a considerable area that resembles a grove of trees, with every trunk connected directly or indirectly to the primary trunk. The topology of this massive root system inspired the name of the hierarchical computer network operating system "Banyan VINES" '. VINES had directory services before Novell Netware and Microsoft did, and was widely used (pun intended) for a while. |
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