sacred
Every article and hero in Arborpedia that touches this subject.
№ 026TreesBael: The Stone-Shelled Fruit Sacred to Shiva
A thorny citrus-family tree whose hard-shelled fruit hides a sweet aromatic pulp made into a cooling drink — and whose trifoliate leaves are the holiest offering to the god Shiva.
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№ 062TreesCannonball Tree: The Sacred Tree of Trunk-Grown Bombs
A rainforest relative of the brazil nut that flowers in gorgeous fragrant blooms straight from its trunk, then hangs it with huge, heavy, foul-smelling cannonballs — and is revered as sacred in India.
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№ 077TreesChampak: The Golden Magnolia of Temple and Perfume
A tall tropical magnolia whose small golden-orange flowers carry one of the most intoxicating scents in the plant world — sacred across South and Southeast Asia, worn in the hair, offered to the gods, and captured in fine perfume.
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№ 243TreesKadamba: Krishna's Fragrant Orange Pincushion Tree
A fast tropical tree sacred to Krishna, hung each monsoon with fragrant orange flower-balls like glowing pincushions — a plant of Indian myth and poetry that is also a fast-growing plantation timber.
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№ 252TreesKhejri: The Desert Tree People Died to Save
The 'king tree' of the Thar Desert — a nitrogen-fixing legume that feeds people and livestock where nothing else grows, revered by the Bishnoi, and the tree at the heart of history's most famous environmental martyrdom.
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№ 405TreesSal Tree: The Sacred Timber of the Buddha's Life
A towering dipterocarp that forms the great forests of northern India — the tree under which the Buddha is said to have been born and to have died, a premier timber, a source of resin, and a maker of leaf-plates.
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