The road under the Banyan Fork, Galle Road, Kalutara 1890?s
Old Banyan Tree Crossing Galle Road, Kalutara, Ceylon 1890's #IMG272
Banyan tree at Kalutara c.1870-1880 #IMG272b
Picturesque old Old Banyan Tree on the Colombo Galle Road, near Kalutara.
At the southernmost end of Kalutara village a magnificent Banyan-tree grows across the high-road like a triumphal arch. The aerial roots of this huge tree have taken hold on the soil on the opposite side of the road and grown to be large trunks, and these and the main trunk form a lofty Gothic vault, which is all the more striking because a number of parasitic ferns, orchids, wild vines, and other parasitic plants have over grown the sterns.
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I remember this tree when I was a youngster in Sri Lanka which I left in 1969. I understand that this tree has been removed to make way for the widened coastal road; or was it knocked over by the 2004 tsunami?