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Alexander's men were certainly the first Europeans known to have seen a banyan tree. They were amazed. The vivid descriptions they wrote would inform Theophrastus, the father of modern botany, back home in Greece. More than a thousand years earlier, the people of the Indus Valley Civilization adopted a stylized banyan as a symbol in their script.

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