342-year-old, world's largest Banyan tree at Howrah Botanical Garden uprooted by Cyclone Amphan
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The Amphan cyclone which hit West Bengal a day before the International Day for Biological Diversity on Friday has severely damaged the world's largest banyan tree in the Howrah botanical garden, Allahabad-based scientist Shiv Kumar of Botanical Survey of India said. Kumar said the Howrah's botanical garden had the world's largest banyan tree aged 342 years with the circumference of its core stem once measuring 15 meters.