A very special tree

The  Bhodi Tree

The Buddhist Community in Tanzania decided to bring a seedling of a Bodhi Tree from Sri Lanka. IN 1919 it was taken from Anuradhapura  City in Sri Lanka and brought over and planted at the templehere in Dar.
The mother tree was brought to Sri Lanka from Inidia, it was grown from one branch of the mian Bodhi tree where Gautama Buddha attained full Enlightenment. After 90 yeas the tree here in Dar has grown so much that is covers almost a quarter of an acre. It did not bear seedlings until 2002 when the seeds were germinated into seedlings, some of which were planted in other parts of the country - Morogoro, The Botanical Gardens  and Butiyama, former President Nyere's home as well as other countries in Africa, namely Kenya, Malawi and South Africa.

You can see pix of the tree in my blog pix on FB.