This plant organ that is found in so many diverse plant families has different specializations that suit the habitats which the plants can grow in. In general growth form, they can be technically classed as negatively geomorphic (grows from the stem up and away from the ground) or positively geomorphic grows down to the ground. Aerial root - Support aerial roots. In the case of the Banyan tree, also known as the strangler fig, the tree begins as a small aerial plant, and grows down and ...

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Aerial root, Aerial root - Types of Aerial Roots, Aerial root - Support aerial roots, Aerial root - Pneumatophores, Aerial root - Haustorial root

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In Lāhainā, the locus of activity is along Front Street, which dates back to the 1820s. It is lined with stores and restaurants, and is often packed with tourists. Banyan Tree Square features an exceptionally large banyan tree planted in 1873 to commemorate the fiftieth aniversary of the arrival of the missionaries. It is also the site of the reconstructed ruins of Lāhainā Fort, originally built in 1832. Prior to unification of the islands, in 1795, the town was sacked by Kamehameha the Great. Lāhainā was the capital of the King ...

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Lāhainā Hawai'i, Lāhainā Hawai'i - History, Lāhainā Hawai'i - Geography, Lāhainā Hawai'i - Demographics, Lāhainā Hawai'i - Attractions

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Fuzhou, also known as the City of Banyan after the many Banyan trees that dot the city landscape, may not be as rich in history as some other ancient Chinese cities but still boasts a fair number of historical sights. West Lake (an artificial lake built in 282 AD) Hualin Temple (founding date uncertain) Dizang Temple (founded in 527 AD) Xichan Temple (founded in 867 AD) Wu Ta (Black Pagoda) (originally built in 799 AD, rebuilt in 936 AD) Bai Ta (White Pagoda) (originally built in 905 ...

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Fuzhou, Fuzhou - History, Fuzhou - Tourism, Fuzhou - Colleges and universities

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An informal group of 22 stockbrokers had been trading under a banyan tree opposite the Town Hall of Bombay from mid-1850s. This banyan tree still stands in Horniman Circle Park, Mumbai. This informal group of stockbrokers organized themselves as “The Native Share and Stockbrokers Association” which, in 1875, was formally organized as the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). BSE is the oldest stock exchange in Asia, the second bei ...

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Bombay Stock Exchange, Bombay Stock Exchange - History, Bombay Stock Exchange - Current Office Bearers, Bombay Stock Exchange - Non-Executive Chairman, Bombay Stock Exchange - MD & CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange - Directors, Bombay Stock Exchange - Trading Member Representatives, Bombay Stock Exchange - Dalal Street, Bombay Stock Exchange - BSE Sensex, Bombay Stock Exchange - BSE - other Indices, Bombay Stock Exchange - BSE - Stock Grouping

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Akkalkot is widely known for its association with Swami Samarth Maharaj, held by some to be a reincarnation of lord Dattatreya. The Swami lived for over two decades at Akkalkot, mainly at the residence of sri Cholappa, where his Samadhi and shrine are also now located. The shrine complex, which also encloses the famous banyan tree beneath which the Swami would preach his message, is the hub of devotions for his followers; fre ...

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Akkalkot, Akkalkot - Akkalkot taluka, Akkalkot - Religious significance, Akkalkot - Princely Akkalkot

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Matthias Whitlock (played by Washington) is police chief of the small Florida town of Banyan Key. He learns that Ann (played by Lathan), with whom he is having an affair, is dying of cancer. He gives her cash siezed during a recent drug bust to pay for her treatment. Matthias happens to be sleeping in his car when a nearby house burns down, in what turns out to be a double homicide. One of the victims was Ann ...

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Out of Time film, Out of Time film - Plot, Out of Time film - Cast

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Guangzhou - Tourist attractions. Shamian Island Guangdong Provincial Museum Museum of the Tomb of the King of Southern Yue in Western Han Dynasty Temple of the Six Banyan Trees Shishi Holy Heart Cathedral Huaisheng Mosque Guangzhou - Other buildings. Guangdong Olympic Stadium CITIC Plaza Sky Central Plaza Guangdong TV Tower Guangzhou TV T ...

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Guangzhou, Guangzhou - Name, Guangzhou - Administrative divisions, Guangzhou - History, Guangzhou - Geography, Guangzhou - Economy, Guangzhou - Transportation, Guangzhou - Culture, Guangzhou - Tourist attractions, Guangzhou - Other buildings, Guangzhou - Sister cities, Guangzhou - Colleges and Universities, Guangzhou - Astronomical phenomena, Guangzhou - Footnotes

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Scottish poet Robert Louis Stevenson memorialized Ka‘iulani in an often quoted poem. "Forth from her land to mine she goes, the island maid, the island rose; light of heart and bright of face: the daughter of a double race. Her islands here, in southern sun, shall mourn their Kaiulani gone, and I, in her dear banyan shade, look vainly for my little maid. But our Scots islands far away shall glitter with unwonted day, and cast for once their tempests by to smile in Kaiulani's eye." After her death, her aunt, the deposed Queen Liliuokalani, recognized another relative, David Kawananakoa as the heir o ...

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Kaiulani, Kaiulani - Early Years, Kaiulani - Education, Kaiulani - Overthrow, Kaiulani - Late Years, Kaiulani - After Death, Kaiulani - Resources

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Aitutaki is famous for its turqoise central lagoon, uninhabited islands and palm-fringed beaches. Another advantage is that until now it has been spared by mass tourism. Noteworthy are also an old church and some gigantic Banyan Trees (ficus prolixa). One Foot Island, a small islet in the south-east of the lagoon, is often said to be the most important attraction. It is regarded as providing the visitor with the best views of the Aitutaki lagoon and depending on the tide one is able to walk on a sandbank a decent distance away from One Foot Island. The trip to this island is the most frequented trip availa ...

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Aitutaki, Aitutaki - Geography, Aitutaki - History, Aitutaki - Places of Interest, Aitutaki - Economy, Aitutaki - Postage stamps

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There seems to have been a belief in a World tree, which in Germanic mythology was an ash tree (Norse Yggdrasil; Irminsul), in Hinduism a banyan tree, in Lithuanian mythology Jievaras and an oak tree in Slavic mythology. Although this concept is absent from Greek mythology, there is also a later folk tradition about the World Tree, which is being sawed by the Kallikantzaroi (Greek goblins), perhaps a reborrowing from other peoples. One common myth which can be found among almost all Indo-European mythologies is a battle ending with th ...

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Proto-Indo-European religion, Proto-Indo-European religion - Priests, Proto-Indo-European religion - Pantheon, Proto-Indo-European religion - Mythology, Proto-Indo-European religion - Development, Proto-Indo-European religion - Notes

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LDAP has gained wide support from vendors such as: Apache (through Apache Directory Server) Apple (through Open Directory/OpenLDAP) AT&T Banyan eB2Bcom (through View500) Fedora Directory Server Hewlett-Packard Identyx IBM/Lotus ISODE (through M-Vault server) Microsoft (through Active Directory) Netscape (now in Sun Microsystems and Red Hat products) Novell (through eDirectory) OctetString (through VDE server)< ...

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Origin and influences, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Protocol overview, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Directory structure, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Operations, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Search and Compare, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Bind authenticate, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Update operations, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Start TLS, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Abandon, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Unbind, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Extended Operation, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - LDAP URLs, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Schema, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Variations, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Other data models, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Terminology, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - Supporting vendors, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - RFCs, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - LDAP fora, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol - LDAP implementations

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Banyan (Banian) The Indian fig tree (Ficus bengalensis of the Urticaceae), a shade tree remarkable for the enormous area that a single tree often covers, since roots are developed from the branches, which descend to the ground and take root. Inasmuch as each descending root in time becomes a tree trunk with branches of its own, which in their turn send roots to the ground, the gradual spread of the tree is theoretically indefinite and can reach more than a hundred yards in diameter. It was named tree of the merchants, as it was customary in olden times to hold markets under the shelter of these trees, called bar in Hindi, vata (covering) in Sanskrit.

In theosophy, used to express the peak of human evolutionary attainment on the earth-chain, the ever-living-human-Banyan or Wondrous Being (SD 1:207). Members of the hierarchy of Compassion under the Wondrous Being are referred to as tendrils descending from the heights to the lower planes of earth, these themselves aspiring to become like their spiritual superior.

(See also: Banyan, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

List of famous trees - Africa. Arbre du Ténéré, a very isolated tree in the Sahara region. List of famous trees - Asia. The Bodhi tree, a Sacred Fig tree under which Buddha is supposed to have been enlightened, at Bodh Gaya, India. The Sri Maha Bodhi tree, propagated from the Bodhi tree, planted in 288 BC at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. The 450 year-old giant banyan tree at Adyar in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India in the grounds of the Theosophical ...

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List of famous trees, List of famous trees - Real individual trees, List of famous trees - Africa, List of famous trees - Asia, List of famous trees - Europe, List of famous trees - North America, List of famous trees - Oceania, List of famous trees - Mythological and religious, List of famous trees - Fictional

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NetWare dominated the network operating system (NOS) market from the mid-80s through the mid- to late-90s due to its extremely high performance relative to other NOS technologies. Most benchmarks during this period demonstrated a 5:1 to 10:1 performance advantage over products from Microsoft, Banyan, and others. One benchmark that was especially interesting compared NetWare 3.x running NFS services over TCP/IP (not NetWare's native IPX protocol) to an expensive, dedicated Auspex NFS server and a SCO Unix server running NFS service. NetWare NFS outperformed both 'native' NFS systems and clocked in with a 2:1 performance adv ...

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Novell NetWare, Novell NetWare - History, Novell NetWare - Early years, Novell NetWare - NetWare 3.x, Novell NetWare - NetWare 4.x, Novell NetWare - NetWare 5.x, Novell NetWare - NetWare 6.x, Novell NetWare - Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell NetWare - Performance, Novell NetWare - File service instead of disk service, Novell NetWare - Efficiency of NetWare Core Protocol NCP, Novell NetWare - Non-preemptive OS designed for network services

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List of Buddhist temples - Beijing. Tanzhe Temple Lama Temple Jietai Temple Yunju Temple List of Buddhist temples - Fujian. Guanghua Temple Wanfu Temple List of Buddhist temples - Guangdong. Nanhua Temple Temple of the Six Banyan Trees List of Buddhist temples - Henan. Shaolin Fragrant Mountain Temple at L ...

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List of Buddhist temples, List of Buddhist temples - Australia, List of Buddhist temples - New South Wales, List of Buddhist temples - Queensland, List of Buddhist temples - Bhutan, List of Buddhist temples - Canada, List of Buddhist temples - Nova Scotia, List of Buddhist temples - Ontario, List of Buddhist temples - China, List of Buddhist temples - Beijing, List of Buddhist temples - Fujian, List of Buddhist temples - Guangdong, List of Buddhist temples - Henan, List of Buddhist temples - Jiangsu, List of Buddhist temples - Jiangxi, List of Buddhist temples - Shandong, List of Buddhist temples - Shanghai, List of Buddhist temples - Yunnan, List of Buddhist temples - Zhejiang, List of Buddhist temples - India, List of Buddhist temples - Bihar, List of Buddhist temples - Sikkim, List of Buddhist temples - Indonesia, List of Buddhist temples - Yogyakarta, List of Buddhist temples - Japan, List of Buddhist temples - Fukui, List of Buddhist temples - Hyogo, List of Buddhist temples - Kanagawa, List of Buddhist temples - Kyoto, List of Buddhist temples - Nara, List of Buddhist temples - Shizuoka, List of Buddhist temples - Tokyo, List of Buddhist temples - Laos, List of Buddhist temples - Malaysia, List of Buddhist temples - Kuala Lumpur, List of Buddhist temples - Malacca, List of Buddhist temples - Penang, List of Buddhist temples - Taiping, List of Buddhist temples - Mongolia, List of Buddhist temples - Myanmar, List of Buddhist temples - Nepal, List of Buddhist temples - South Korea, List of Buddhist temples - Sri Lanka, List of Buddhist temples - Taiwan, List of Buddhist temples - Thailand, List of Buddhist temples - Bangkok, List of Buddhist temples - Chiang Mai, List of Buddhist temples - Chiang Rai, List of Buddhist temples - Kanchanaburi, List of Buddhist temples - Pathum Thani, List of Buddhist temples - Saraburi, List of Buddhist temples - Tibet, List of Buddhist temples - Europe, List of Buddhist temples - France, List of Buddhist temples - United Kingdom, List of Buddhist temples - United States, List of Buddhist temples - Arizona, List of Buddhist temples - California, List of Buddhist temples - Florida, List of Buddhist temples - Hawaii, List of Buddhist temples - Maryland, List of Buddhist temples - New York, List of Buddhist temples - North Carolina, List of Buddhist temples - Tennessee, List of Buddhist temples - Utah, List of Buddhist temples - Vermont, List of Buddhist temples - Washington

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Ever-living Human Banyan. See BANYAN; WONDROUS BEING

(See also: Ever-living Human Banyan, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)

bhandira

A fig tree of the banyan species.

(See also: bhandira, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

ashvatta:

ashvatta. Banyan tree, impermanent.

(See also: ashvatta, Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

Dakshinamurti: (Sanskrit) "South-facing form." Lord Siva depicted sitting under a banyan tree, silently teaching four rishis at His feet.

(See also: Dakshinamurti, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

Panchavati:

Panchavati (Panchavatee). A place on the southern bank of the Godavari river where Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana lived for some time while in exile. It got its name because of the five banyan trees that stood there in a circle.

(See also: Panchavati, Hinduism, Hinduism Dictionary, Sanskrit Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

vata: (Sanskrit) The banyan tree, Ficus indicus sacred to

Siva. Thought to derive from vat, "to surround,

encompass" - also called nyagrodha, "growing

downwards." Ancient symbol of the Sanatana Dharma. Its

relative, the ashvattha, or pipal tree, is given in the

Upanishads as a metaphor for creation, with the "roots

above and the branches below."

(See also: Vata, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)