Calcutta Travel Guide

Great Banyan Tree

The Indian Botanical Gardens in Kolkata has many floral treasures, but none as impressive as the 250-year-old Great Banyan Tree, which covers nearly 5,300 square feet (500 sq/m). What at first seems like a forest of narrow trunks is, in fact, 1,573 drop-roots from a single banyan tree - by some margin the largest in the world. The rest of the gardens are also certainly worth exploring, containing 12,000 living plant species from every corner of the globe.