banyans

I assume that the trees in question are actually banyans.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Name of What Country 2010

Every window of the hotel looks inward to a crosshatch of courtyards and fountains, banyans and Madeira palms.

The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010

I spent kindergarten and 1st grade in Gitmo — I was a very precocious Islamic mujahid, but I grew out of it ;- — and we had a couple of large banyans in our backyard.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Name of What Country 2010

The colonel pulls open the French doors to his balcony and looks out over the ancient banyans.

The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010

I assume that the trees in question are actually banyans.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Name of What Country 2010

This was one of the thickest jungles on earth...vines, banyans, chest-deep water, insects were all over the place.

Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002

I drove through the greenery, through the bushes and the trees and the water buffaloes lazing in muddy ponds; past the creepers and the bushes; past the paddy fields; past the coconut palms; past the bananas; past the neems and the banyans; past the wild grass with the faces of the water buffaloes peeping through.

THE WHITE TIGER Aravind Adiga 2008

The banyans gave way to an oppressive forest of Brazilian Peppers, and there we saw our first wildlife: a huge bobcat that stood for a moment in the rubbly remains of the road, hissing at us with its ears laid flat, then fled into the underbrush.

Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008

Most of it's uninhabited, a tangle of banyans, palms, and Australian pines with an uneven, dune-rumpled beach running along the Gulf edge.

Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008

As always, James is a master of lush detail, especially when describing his native Australia — there, wrasses mix with banyans and reefs to produce a sense of exquisite sensory nostalgia.

Proper, at Last 2008