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Banyan tree

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Ficus (Plants)

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Images about Banyan tree

7 images from works
  • Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) growing on a lakeside. Coloured etching by B. Pouncy, c. 1793, after W. Hodges.
  • View from inside an enormous banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis L.). Engraving by J. Greig, after J. Forbes, 1778.
  • Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis L.) with many trunks. Lithograph by W. Stoker, 1811, after J. Forbes, 1778.
  • Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) with many spreading aerial roots. Aquatint by T. Medland, c. 1807, after J. Cordiner.
  • A famous banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis L.), named Cubbeer Burr, on a river island in India. Lithograph by W. Stoker, 1811, after J. Forbes, 1778.
  • Shivaite yogi accosts a woman under a banyan tree. Chromolithograph.
  • A spreading banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis L.) growing on a palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer L.) and sheltering 2 people. Engraving by J. Greig, after J. Forbes, 1774.

Works from the collections

10 works

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    Talipot palms (Corypha umbraculifera) growing beside and on other plants with two people in foreground. Aquatint by T. Medland, c. 1807, after J. Cordiner.

    Cordiner, James, the rev., 1775-1836. | Date: 4 June 1807 | Reference: 20998i
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    View from inside an enormous banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis L.). Engraving by J. Greig, after J. Forbes, 1778.

    Forbes, James, 1749-1819. | Date: 1st June 1812 | Reference: 20055i
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    Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) growing on a lakeside. Coloured etching by B. Pouncy, c. 1793, after W. Hodges.

    Hodges, William, 1744-1797. | Date: [1793] | Reference: 21016i
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    El ficus anthelmintica : observaciones farmacodinamicas generales / por C. Gutiérrez-Noriega, H. Rotondo y F. Alarco.

    Gutiérrez-Noriega, Carlos, 1906-1950. | Date: 1938
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    Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) with many spreading aerial roots. Aquatint by T. Medland, c. 1807, after J. Cordiner.

    Cordiner, James, the rev., 1775-1836. | Date: 4 June 1807 | Reference: 20994i
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Related topics

Trees
Plants, Useful
Plants
Fiber plants
Ficus (Plants)
Moraceae
Botany - Mythology
Botany - India
Botany
Plant morphology

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