Ficus - List of Famous Fig Trees

List of Famous Fig Trees

  • Ashvattha – the world tree of Hinduism, held to be a supernatural F. religiosa
  • Bodhi tree – a F. religiosa
  • Charybdis Fig Tree of the Odyssey, presumably a F. carica
  • Curtain Fig Tree – a F. virens
  • Ficus Ruminalis – a F. carica
  • Plaksa – another supernatural fig in Hinduism; usually identified as F. religiosa but probably F. infectoria
  • Santa Barbara's Moreton Bay Fig Tree – a F. macrophylla
  • Sri Maha Bodhi – another F. religiosa. Planted in 288 BC, the oldest human-planted tree on record
  • The Great Banyan – a F. benghalensis, a clonal colony and once the largest organism known
  • Vidurashwatha – "Vidura's Sacred Fig tree", a village in India named after a famous F. religiosa that until recently stood there
  • Wonderboom - the largest fig tree, in Pretoria, South Africa

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