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In the tertiary - hundred BC , with the planting of a single Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , the metropolis of Anuradhapura , Sri Lanka , became a consecrated place . The Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was originate from a cutting from a holy Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in Bodh Gaya , under which Buddha had found enlightenment .
These two trees — in Anuradhapura and Bodh Gaya , India — and otherFicus religiosaare called religious common fig tree , or , most excellently , bodhi trees . And , after Buddha was believed to have sit under its canopy and found enlightenment , the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree would become sacred emblems , present wisdom and beckon others to be calm beneath its leaves .
Anuradhapura ’s bodhi Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ; photo credit : hu9423 , Wikipedia
Anuradhapura ’s bodhi Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ( called Sri Maha Bodhi ) is tell to have arrived around 250 BC , in the men of a Buddhist princess who hoped to spread Buddha ’s teachings to Sri Lanka . Today , the bodhi tree is very large and very old — at more than 2,000 year old , it is believed to be the oldest known tree planted by human handwriting , and the oldest historically authenticate tree in the world ( this means that its years is verify by a continuous forward motion of protector , since it was first planted ) .
And it is still incline today , by streams of fan who make a pilgrimage to the bodhi tree for offerings and prayers . A gold rail palisade the ancient trunk , and prayer flags disturbance on its ramification .
Ficus religiosais a species of banyan figure native to India , Bangladesh , Nepal , Pakistan , Sri Lanka , southwest China , and Indochina . The leaves are 4 inch to 6.5 column inch long , 3 inch to almost 5 inches wide , and distinctively cordate , or spunk - shaped . The tree grows up to 100 metrical foot marvelous and , the trunk , up to 10 feet full .
foliage from theFicus religiosa ; photo creditEric Guinther .
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