Garden sights in Kolkata (Calcutta)
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Botanical Gardens
Founded in 1786, the 109-hectare Botanical Gardens played an important role in cultivating tea long before it became a household commodity. Today there’s a cactus house, palm collection, river-overlook and a boating-lake with splendid Giant Amazon Lily pads but the biggest draw is a 250-year-old banyan tree, 140m across. It’s reputedly the world’s largest but the central trunk rotted away in the 1920s leaving a curious ‘forest’ of cross-branches and linked aerial roots that have become virtual trees of their own.
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Horticultural Gardens
The lawn, tropical trees and flowering shrubs of the delightful Horticultural Gardens offer some respite from the traffic rumble.
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