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Knowing a plant every day (221): Bodhi – the place where Buddha Shakyamuni attained positive results

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The Bodhi tree is a tall tree of the genus Banyanaceae , and is often attached to other trees at its young age. The Bodhi tree is cultivated in the coastal islands of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and Jingdong in China, and it is said that more than 2,000 years ago, Buddha Shakyamuni cultivated under the Bodhi tree to achieve positive fruit, and in India, whether it is Hinduism, Buddhism or Jainism, the Bodhi tree is regarded as a "sacred tree". The government has also implemented "national treasure" protection for the Bodhi tree.

Knowing a plant every day (221): Bodhi – the place where Buddha Shakyamuni attained positive results
Knowing a plant every day (221): Bodhi – the place where Buddha Shakyamuni attained positive results

Morphological characteristics

The linden tree is a large tree, 15–25 m tall, 30–50 cm in diameter at the chest, with grey bark, smooth or slightly longitudinal stripes; Twigs gray-brown; The leaves are leathery, triangular and ovate, dark green on the surface and green on the back; Fig fruit spherical to oblate spherical, red when ripe, smooth; The fruiting period is from May to June.

Knowing a plant every day (221): Bodhi – the place where Buddha Shakyamuni attained positive results

Ecological habits

Linden trees like light, high temperature and high humidity, are not resistant to frost, have strong pollution resistance, and prefer loose and fertile slightly acidic sandy loam soil, but the soil requirements are not strict, and it is better to grow in tropical areas.

Knowing a plant every day (221): Bodhi – the place where Buddha Shakyamuni attained positive results

Key value

Greening value: Linden trees are highly resistant to hydrogen fluoride, and also have certain resistance to sulfur dioxide and chlorine, which can be used as a green tree species in polluted areas. At the same time, the Linden tree is tall and leafy, and it is also a good ornamental tree species.

Knowing a plant every day (221): Bodhi – the place where Buddha Shakyamuni attained positive results

Economic value: the milky juice flowing from the trunk of the linden tree can be extracted to make hard rubber; The branches and leaves can be used as feed for some livestock; The material can be used as cutting board, packaging box board and fiberboard raw material.

Knowing a plant every day (221): Bodhi – the place where Buddha Shakyamuni attained positive results

Plant culture

Religious culture: India is the birthplace of Buddhism. Legend has it that more than 2,500 years ago, Buddha Shakyamuni was the young prince Gautama Siddhartha of the Kapilavan kingdom in northern India. In order to get rid of the suffering of the cycle of birth, old age, illness and death, and to save suffering sentient beings, he resolutely gave up inheriting the throne and a comfortable royal life, and practiced monasticism to seek the true meaning of life. After years of cultivation, once he sat quietly under the Bodhi tree for 7 days and 7 nights, overcame all kinds of evil temptations, and finally attained great enlightenment and cultivated into a Buddha when the sky was about to dawn and the stars were rising.

Knowing a plant every day (221): Bodhi – the place where Buddha Shakyamuni attained positive results

Origin of the name: The word "Bodhi" is a transliteration of the ancient Indian (i.e. Sanskrit) Bodhi, which means enlightenment, wisdom, and is used to refer to people waking up like a dream, suddenly enlightened, enlightened to the truth, and reach an otherworldly state. Since the Buddha "became enlightened" under this tree, this tree is called the Bodhi Tree.

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