Arboretum tour - Saturday 13th @ 15.30

Discover the trees of Bangalore at the NGMA with Mr. Vijay Thiruvady who will tell us about the chosen trees of the month.

Registrations are limited and begin on the 9th and end on the 11th of October from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.   Register with : ngma.bengaluru@gmail.com 

TREE OF THE MONTH:  A banyan (also banian) is a fig that starts its life as an epiphyte (a plant growing on another plant) when its seeds germinate in the cracks and crevices on a host tree (or on structures like buildings and bridges). "Banyan" often refers specifically to the Indian banyan or Ficus benghalensis, the national tree of India, though the term has been generalized to include all figs that share a unique life cycle, and systematically to refer to the subgenus Urostigma. (wikipedia.org)