Ficus bengalensis

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Ficus bengalensis - East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunksbanian, banian tree, banyan, banyan tree, East Indian fig tree, Indian banyanfig tree - any moraceous tree of the tropical genus Ficus; produces a closed pear-shaped receptacle that becomes fleshy and edible when mature