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Where did the 4,000 kg tree come from?
A mature Banyan tree could easily weigh 4,000 kg. Where did all this mass come from? Most of us believe it comes from the soil, water, or nutrients. Let us look at the soil first. In 1648, a fascinating experiment was carried out by a Flemish scientist named Jan Baptist van Helmont. He took a willow sapling weighing 140 gm and planted it in soil with a dry weight of 90 kgs. He watered it regularly for 5 years, and the plant grew to 76 kg, gaining 75.86 kgs in weight. He drie
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