Bodhi tree is a Ficus plant of Moraceae. Big trees, which are attached to other trees when they are young, are as high as 15-25m and DBH 30-50cm;; The bark is gray, the leaves are leathery, triangular and oval, and the fig fruit is spherical to oblate, and it is red when it is ripe. Male flower, gall flower and female flower are born on the inner wall of the same fig fruit. The ovary is smooth and spherical. The style is slender and the stigma is narrow. The flowering period is from March to April, and the fruiting period is from May to June. Distributed in Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Pakistan and India. It is the national tree of India. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty in China, Huineng, the sixth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, wrote a poem about the Bodhi Tree, which was widely circulated. The poem "Bodhi without trees" has become a classic sentence of Buddhist theory that "everything is empty".
Simple bodhi trees bear fruit every year.
Bodhi in reality is not the fruit of a bodhi tree. Bodhi tree, Bodhi tree, belongs to Ficus of Moraceae. Its flowers are cryptocephalic inflorescences, and its fruits are aggregated flowers and fruits. Its shape and structure are similar to those of figs we eat, and all kinds of bodhis can't grow all over the body! There are more than 30 kinds of beads named after Bodhi. Some are named after the place of origin, such as Tiantai Bodhi and Tianzhu Bodhi, and some are named after the texture, such as Xingyue Bodhi and Cheng Yan Bodhi. And those bodhis on the market are actually the fruits or seeds of many kinds of plants.