Peepal
ಅಶ್ವತ್ಥಮರपीपलகவலை
Ficus religiosa L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- —
- wide
- —
Moraceae
Also called Sacred fig, Bo Tree, Tree Of Enlightment, Peepul Tree
Formerly Ficus caudata, Ficus peepul, Ficus superstitiosa, Urostigma affine, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Pakistan to MyanmarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 2.5 °C (USDA zone 10b)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 5 °C; Wikipedia 0 °C
- Hottest it survives
- 35 °CRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: height, spread, flowers, heat.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 菩提樹, 畢缽羅, 印度菩提树皮
- Estonian
- püha viigipuu
- Portuguese
- Figueira religiosa
- Chinese (China)
- 菩提树, 毕钵罗树
- Czech
- fíkovník posvátný
- Thai
- โพ
- Spanish
- Amate sagrado
- Japanese
- インドボダイジュ, テンジクボダイジュ
- Arabic
- أثأب الهند, تين المجوس, تين الأصنام
- Indonesian
- Bodhi
- Korean
- 보리수
- Sinhala
- ඇසතු
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Ficus religiosa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.