Banyan fig tree with aerial roots, Ficus benghalensis. Handcolored copperplate engraving by J. Schaly of a botanical illustration from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Vienna, 1816.

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