The Shibpur botanical garden, India’s oldest living plant repository housing 1,377 species and the legendary Great Banyan ...

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How do you decide what the biggest tree in the world is? Tallest? Heaviest? The Great Banyan in the Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Botanical Gardens in Kolkata, India, has the world's largest canopy by ...

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Kolkata: A citizens group engaged in philanthropic ... Asiatic Society founder Sir William Jones; Indian Botanic Garden founder Colonel Robert Kid and Surveyor General of India Colin Mackenzie.

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The Great Banyan tree is a 250-year-old Ficus benghalensis, located in Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, in the town of Howrah, not far from Kolkata (Calcutta). The tree has over ...

is a botanical garden situated in Shibpur, Howrah near Kolkata. They are commonly known as the Calcutta Botanical Garden and previously as the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. The gardens exhibit a ...