Banyan is a big tree with a height of 15-25m, DBH 50cm and a broad crown. Old trees usually have rusty brown air roots. The bark is dark gray. Leaves are thin leathery, narrowly elliptic, 4-8 cm long and 3-4 cm wide, with blunt apex, wedge-shaped base, dark green surface, dark brown after drying, glossy, entire, extended basal veins and 3- 10 pairs of lateral veins; Petiole 5- 10 mm long, glabrous; Stipules small, lanceolate, about 8 mm long.

Ficus (scientific name: Ficus) is a tree of Ficus in Moraceae, which is native to tropical Asia. Banyan is famous for its peculiar tree shape, lush foliage and huge crown. The aerial roots growing on the branches extend down into the soil to form a new trunk, which is called "column root". The banyan tree is 30 meters high and can stretch in all directions indefinitely. Its roots and branches are intertwined, which looks like a dense jungle, so it is called "a single tree makes a forest". Banyan tree was rated as Fujian tree, and also as city tree in Fuzhou and Ganzhou. Mainly distributed in China, Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, Papua New Guinea and Australia to the Caroline Islands.