Banyan is the name given to several coinage of the genus Ficus . These large trees , which are native to the tropics and subtropics , were brought to the Hawaiian Islands in the late 1800s . Although they are not native plants , Indian banyan have become an entire part of the Hawaiian landscape .

History

The first Ficus bengalensis were bring to Oahu , by former extraneous occupier during the dough woodlet geological era . A few were grown in early private botanic gardens , and a few others graced the landscape of large acres .

Many old banyan trees in Hawai’i are locally famous , such as the chemical group of trees that line both side of Banyan Drive in Hilo , on the Big Island of Hawai’i . Each of these enormous trees bears a memorial tablet with the name of the famous person who was invited to plant it during the 1920s through 1960s . Some of these East Indian fig tree were plant by such renowned material body as Mark Twain , Amelia Earhart and Richard Nixon .

Types

Many varieties of Ficus exist called banyan , including several kinds known as " throttler figs . " These type of banyan tree begin life high in the branches of other Tree , and then rise root down their trunks , finally killing the host .

Another character of banyan is called a " root climber " because of it forms aerial ancestor along the distance of its branches , which eventually become body like editorial . This type of banyan is most normally planted in the landscape . Common species in Hawai’i include the creeping fig ( F. pumila ) and the Moreton Bay common fig tree ( F. macrophylla ) .

Benefits

banian tree are related to the edible Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and they produce small - common fig like fruits which are relished by bird . They rapidly raise into very enceinte , tropic - expect shadiness tree diagram , which are useful in commons and public receptive space . They are tolerant of poor grease , coastal experimental condition and even drought . They are giving tree in the correct location , and statuesque previous banyan trees have become a much beloved part of the Hawaiian landscape painting .

Considerations

Banyans contact heights of 80 to 100 feet and a undivided tree diagram can rise to be over an acre in width . Roots arise down from lateral branches , form a maze of trunks , which expand outward for recollective distance . Some species have larger canopies than others , but they are all unnerving Tree , which do not belong in residential landscapes . tree diagram in public spaces require frequent maintenance to prevent unsought spreading of the trunk . Their large stem can also invade septic system and ruin base and sidewalk . Ficus bengalensis also acquire large measure of foliage litter and shade out other plants or weed produce below .

Warning

At first , banyan trees raise in Hawai’i had to be propagated by cuttings because each species requires a specific pollinator wasp to conduct fruit , and none of these were present on the island . During the early 1900s , in an ill - fated attempt to reconstruct degraded watersheds to health , 35 coinage of these tight - grow non - native trees were planted in Hawai’i ’s forest reserves . Their corresponding pollinator wasps were also released in hopes that the trees would reseed . Only two species of these wasps survived , but their shock was substantial because the Chinese banyan and the Port Jackson common fig lead off to multiply freely and obtrude upon native forest . Today both of these trees are considered alien weeds in Hawai’i and should never be implant .

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