The beautiful centuries-old trees at a cave complex in Shan State create the
perfect atmosphere for a famous mile-long pagoda festival.
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Banyan Trees of Pindaya.
A banyan, also spelled banian, is a fig that develops accessory trunks
from adjacent prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards
indefinitely.
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This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a strangler habit
that begin life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another
plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree
or edifice.
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Banyan religion and mythology.
In Buddhism's Pali canon, the banyan (Pali: nigrodha) is
referenced numerous times.
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Typical metaphors allude to the banyan's epiphytic nature, likening
the banyan's supplanting of a host tree as comparable to the way
sensual desire (kama) overcomes humans.
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