Tree Tuesday 🌲
Tree Tuesday
Banyan trees can be found everywhere in Mauritius. In the public gardens in the city center, next to the side of the roads and in the beautiful Botanical Gardens.
I've Googled the meaning of the name and found the following information on the www.mauritiustimes.com website in an article about the tree. I insert an excerpt from the article ''I sort of had an idea that the banyan is a member of the fig family. However I owe it to Google that the origin of the name emanates from the Gujarati language meaning “grocer and trader".
In the olden days the village Panchayat and Hindu merchants used to conduct business under the cooling shade of this magnificent tree. Eventually the word became a synonym for the merchants and the tree under which they bought and sold their wares.''
The banyan trees are my all time favorite island trees.
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Those are very cool trees. Nothing at all like them here!
Thank you. I've got plenty more of them. The Botanical Gardens boasts even more as well as a bunch of other trees. Thank you for stopping by ☺️
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They are definitely and beautiful and sacred tree here in Thailand that one look huge also :)