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    Trees play an important role in Indian history, culture, and religion. The national tree of India is the banyan tree, known for its wide-reaching roots that can cover hectares. Other significant trees include the peepal tree, which is protected as a living monument and is sacred in Buddhism as the bodhi tree where Buddha achieved enlightenment, and the neem tree, also called the miracle tree for its usefulness in rehabilitating wastelands and as a focal point for village meetings.

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    Trees play an important role in Indian history, culture, and religion. The national tree of India is the banyan tree, known for its wide-reaching roots that can cover hectares. Other significant trees include the peepal tree, which is protected as a living monument and is sacred in Buddhism as the bodhi tree where Buddha achieved enlightenment, and the neem tree, also called the miracle tree for its usefulness in rehabilitating wastelands and as a focal point for village meetings.

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    Trees play an important role in Indian history, culture, and religion. The national tree of India is the banyan tree, known for its wide-reaching roots that can cover hectares. Other significant trees include the peepal tree, which is protected as a living monument and is sacred in Buddhism as the bodhi tree where Buddha achieved enlightenment, and the neem tree, also called the miracle tree for its usefulness in rehabilitating wastelands and as a focal point for village meetings.

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    Trees in India

    Trees in India known for their grandeur and majesty are like the green pearl in the Indian crown. Trees occupy the important place in the history of India. Trees have always been associated with wisdom and immorality in India. Hindu literature describes a celestial tree as having its roots in the heaven and its branches in the underworld that unites and connects beings of every kind. Banyan is the National Tree of India. India's medicinal are no less diverse. Peepal, banyan (Bodhi tree), banana, and Tulsi are some of the plants that holds special cultural and religious significance in India. Indian Rosewood, Kikar, Aleo Vera, Ashwagandha, Cork, Brahmi, Sal, Khair and Garden Asparagus are some of the popular trees grown in India.

    Banyan Tree
    Banyan is the National Tree of India. It has the widest reaching roots of all known trees, easily covering several hectares. It is said that at one time more than 10, 000 people can sit under its shade at one time.

    Peepal Tree

    Hundred of trees are protected as living natural monument in India and Peepal or is one of them. It is popularly known as the Bodhi Tree in India, under which Lord Buddha attained enlightenment. It is the sacred tree of India.

    Neem Tree

    Neem tree is popularly known as the Miracle Tree. It is a useful tree in rehabilitating the waste land areas. Even today Neem Tree is the focal point of village life and the village council meetings under the shade of this huge huge tree.

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