Do you know which tree this is? Was completely blown away the first time I saw it, on the Out of Eden Walk trail in North Bengal with Paul Salopek. Finally identified with the help of a kind friend.

This is the Duabanga Grandiflora. Called Bondorphulla in Bengal, Thora / Khukan in Assam and Duyabangga in Tripura (also where the botanical name comes from).

I stood transfixed beneath the tree while looking up at the low drooping branches swaying gently with the breeze. #FiftyTrees #Bengal

Neem and Peepal (Ficus Religiosa) growing together, somewhere in the upper catchment of the Ken River in Bundelkhand.

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This is going to be a lot of water/rivers/environment/trees/politics. Follow if you're up for it! :))

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