Fuyan Banyan Tree

　　In Damanuo Village, Fuyan Township, Menglian Dai, Lahu and Va Autonomous County, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, there stands a banyan tree that is 48 meters tall with a crown spread of 4,336 square meters. The tree has an expansive canopy, lush foliage, and a thick trunk with a base diameter of 35.3 meters—so wide that it would take 68 adults holding hands to encircle it. Previously, there was a tree in the United States believed to be the largest in the world, and former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt once rode a horse-drawn carriage out through a hollow at the base of the tree with his entourage. Currently, one of the hollows in this Menglian banyan tree is wide enough for two cars to drive through side by side. Such a massive and robust tree has become one of the most unique phenomena in the plant world and can be called the world’s number one tree.