Bodhi Tree; Sacred Fig; Peepul Tree
Ficus religiosa · Moraceae · 인도보리수
How to spot it
Characterized by a slender, long, drooping tail-like leaf tip (2 to 5 cm).
Look
- Leaves
- Broadly egg-shaped to heart-shaped leathery leaves with a slender, long tail-like tip 2 to 5 cm long.
- Fruit
- Nearly round figs (syconia), 0.5 to 0.8 (up to 1) cm across, turn purple to black when ripe.
- Bark
- Gray bark, smooth or finely cracked.
Where it grows
- Native to
- A tropical tree native to parts of Asia.
- Ecology
- Grows as a tree or hemi-epiphyte. Fig wasps pollinate it, and bulbuls, copper-smith barbets, cuckoos and squirrels spread the fruit.