Banyan
ಆಲफिकस बेंघालेंसिसஆல்
Ficus benghalensis L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Moraceae
Also called Indian banyan, East Indian fig tree, Banyan tree
Formerly Ficus banyana, Ficus chauvieri, Ficus cotoneifolia, Ficus cotonifolia, and 8 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Indian SubcontinentKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; RHS full
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 7 °C (USDA zone 11b)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -1.1 °C; RHS 15 °C
Not known yet: height, spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Baniano
- Estonian
- bengali viigipuu, baanian
- Chinese
- 孟加拉榕, 广榕
- Czech
- fíkovník bengálský
- German
- Banyanbaum
- Japanese
- ベンガルボダイジュ
- Indonesian
- Beringin India
- Sinhala
- නුග
- Dutch
- Banyan
- Thai
- นิโครธ, กร่าง, ไกร
- Hebrew
- פיקוס בנגלי
- Russian
- Фикус бенгальский
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ficus benghalensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.