High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sacred Fig (Ficus religiosa) or Bo-Tree (from the Sinhala bo) is a species of banyan fig native to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, southwest China and Indochina. It is a large dry season-deciduous or semi-evergreen tree up to 30 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 3 m. The leaves are cordate in shape with a distinctive extended tip; they are 10 17 cm long and 8 12 cm broad, with a 6 10 cm petiole. The fruit is a small fig 1-1.5 cm diameter, green ripening purple. The Bodhi tree and the Sri Maha Bodhi propagated from it are famous specimens of Sacred Fig.