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Spanning nearly two acres and multiple centuries, the banyan tree in the heart of Hawaii’s wildfire-ravaged town of Lahaina literally and figuratively looms large. Its sprawling canopy and dozens of ...

The fire put a lot of stress on the banyan tree, Sparkman and Griffith said, so arborists are working hard to give it everything it needs to bounce back.

One of the first places Timothy Griffith Jr. went after the deadliest wildfire in more than a century ripped through Maui's west coast was Lahaina's historic banyan tree. The chief arborist for Maui ...

In 1873 an exotic banyan tree was planted in the port town of Lahaina, a major hub for the then-Kingdom of Hawaii. At the time it was only 8 feet tall. Today its branches extend over 60 feet high and ...

The shaded Lahaina square where tourists once milled beneath the town’s famed banyan tree has become the domain of volunteer papaya, tomato and lilikoi sprouts. “We know what the birds are eating,” ...

LAHAINA, Hawaii (KHON2) — The 150-year-old banyan tree that has grown in the heart of Lāhainā is the largest of its kind in the United States. It spans across nearly two acres of space, and residents ...