The Banian Tree | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 5, 1877

The Banian Tree.

THE Scientific American of June 30, 1877, states a fact which well illustrates the representations of the book of Revelation concerning the tree of life, which, though but one tree, grows on both sides of the river of life. The illustration is found in the banian tree, of which that paper says:—

“An instance of the vast extent of country which may be covered by a single banian grove is furnished by the island of Nerbudda, which is entirely covered by one tree. A considerable portion of the island and the grove growing upon it has been washed away by river floods during recent years; but enough remains to make one of the noblest groves in the world. The natives boast that it once afforded shelter to a troop of 10,000 horses. Another extensive banian forest—all parts of one tree—occurs in the district of Beerbhoom, in Bengal. It covers ‘an immense extent of country,’ and overshadows more than four hundred temples.”