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Photos of an acre-wide banyan tree fascinate nature lovers
Original: Everything you see here is part of one tree, it’s all trunk. An almost acre wide tree. #ThickTrunkTuesday #banyan #trees
Photographs are circulating of a giant banyan tree said to span nearly an acre, with everything in the frame belonging to a single tree's trunk and supporting roots. The images are being shared by nature and photography enthusiasts admiring the species' unusual growth, in which aerial roots thicken into trunk-like structures and spread the tree across a huge area.
Why now: Striking photos of an enormous single banyan tree are being shared amid a tree-appreciation photo trend
Evidence
- Everything you see here is part of one tree, it’s all trunk. An almost acre wide tree. #ThickTrunkTuesday #banyan #trees #nature #photography · sewzinski.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · 6
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