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[[Image:Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden - Howrah 2011-01-08 9728.JPG|thumb|Thimmamma Marrimanu - the Great Banyan tree revered by the people of [[Indian religions|Indian-origin religions]] such as [[Hinduism]] (including [[Vedic]], [[Shaivism]], [[Dravidian folk religion|Dravidian Hinduism]]), [[Buddhism]], [[Jainism]], and [[Sikhism]].]]<br />
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[[Banyan]] is considered holy in several religious traditions of India. The [[Ficus benghalensis]] is the [[National tree]] of India,<ref name="National Symbols of India">{{cite web | url=http://india.gov.in/knowindia/national_symbols.php/national_symbols.php?id=5 | title=National Tree| publisher= [[Government of India]] Official website| accessdate=2012-01-16}}</ref> and also the [[List of Indian state trees|state tree]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]].<br />
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The following is a list of '''notable Banyan trees in India'''. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by its historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. Some researches found that there are '''less than 150''' Banyan trees left in India. The list includes actual Banyan trees located throughout the India.<br />
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* [[Thimmamma Marrimanu]], is listed as the world's largest Banyan tree in the Guinness World Records in 1989. The tree is situated about 35&nbsp;km from Kadri Lakshmi Narasimha temple in [[Anantapur district]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]. Its branches spread over 5 acres,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.backpacker-backgammon.com/news_banyan_trees.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-01-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120710100822/http://www.backpacker-backgammon.com/news_banyan_trees.html |archivedate=2012-07-10 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anantapur.com/travel/thimmamma.html|title=Thimmamma Marrimanu - Anantapur|website=Anantapur.com|accessdate=19 March 2019}}</ref> with a [[canopy (biology)|canopy]] of 19,107 square metres<br />
* [[Kabirvad]], Gujarat is one of the biggest banyan tree in India. Currently the area of its canopy is 17,520 m<sup>2</sup> (4.33 acres) with a perimeter of 641 m (2,103&nbsp;ft). Named after saint Kabir, it is one of the most famous destination for tourists in Gujarat near Bharuch city.<br />
* [[The Great Banyan]] in the botanical garden near Kolkata, a clonal colony of Indian Banyan with a crown circumference of over 330 meters.The area occupied by the tree is about 18,918 square metres (about 1.89 hectares or 4.67 acres). The present crown of the tree has a circumference of 486 m. and the highest branch rises to 24.5 m; it has at present 3772 aerial roots reaching down to the ground as a prop root. Its height is almost equivalent to the Gateway of India.<br />
*[[Pillalamarri]], 800-year-old banyan tree located in [[Mahabubnagar]], [[Telangana]], [[India]]. The tree is spread over an area of 4 acres, according to archeological survey of India it is the third largest in India.<br />
* The 450-year-old giant Banyan tree at Adyar in [[Adyar (Chennai)|Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India, in the grounds of the [[Theosophical Society Adyar|Theosophical Society]] headquarters under which people listened to discourses by intellectuals including J. Krishnamurti, Annie Besant and Maria Montessori.<ref name="adyar1">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKQm0V7nnj8C&pg=PA40&dq=Banyan+tree+Adyar&hl=en&sa=X&ei=owZkT7HUGqfW0QG38P2GCA&ved=0CEkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Banyan%20tree%20Adyar&f=false|title=Theosophist Magazine; October-December 1927}}</ref><br />
* [[Dodda Alada Mara]], the 400-year-old tree also called the Big Banyan Tree at Ramohalli, [[Bengaluru]], [[Karnataka]]. It is 95 feet tall and spreads across an area of 3 acres. This tree is located 28&nbsp;km from Bengaluru.<br />
* Chosath Yogini temple: a 1000 year old Banyan tree, located in Maharajpur, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh (India), spread in 50000sq feet, the biggest banyan tree of central India<br />
* Pirbaba's Taroda sacred grove is located in Amravati district, Maharashtra. In there, there is a huge banyan tree spread over 2.5 acres of land inside the grove due to which is considered a "sacred tree."<br />
* Cholti Kheri scared tree in [[Fatehgarh Sahib district]] of Punjab.<br />
* [[Pemgiri]], with 3.5 acres spread it is largest banyan tree of Maharashtra, 16 km west from Sangamner on Pune-Nasik Highway<br />
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==See also ==<br />
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* Sacred related <br />
** [[Sacred trees]]<br />
*** [[Bodhi Tree]]<br />
*** [[Sacred groves]]<br />
*** [[Sacred groves of India]]<br />
*** [[Tree worship]]<br />
** [[Sacred mountains]]<br />
** [[Sacred natural site]]<br />
** [[River#Sacred|Sacred rivers]]<br />
** [[Sacred site]]<br />
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* General<br />
** [[List of types of formally designated forests]]<br />
** [[List of superlative trees|Superlative trees]]<br />
** [[Tree hugger (disambiguation)]]<br />
** [[Axis mundi|World mountain]]<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
{{Worship in Hinduism}}<br />
{{Tourism in India}}<br />
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[[Category:Individual banyan trees|India]]<br />
[[Category:Trees of India]]<br />
[[Category:Lists of trees|Banyan Trees Of India]]<br />
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