Oldest Tree In the World is in Sri Lanka
Channel: VMOOZ
Date: 2020-02-26

The oldest tree known to have been planted by a human rather than 
by natural seeding is a 2,300-year-old sacred fig or bo-tree.

This Sacred tree stands in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. 
It is the capital city of North Central Province, Sri Lanka 


Anuradhapura is one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka, 
famous for its well-preserved ruins of an ancient Sri Lankan civilization. 


It holds the Guinness World Record for the Oldest-known human-planted tree 

Also it is the 12th oldest in the list of oldest trees with verified age.


 It was planted there in 288 BC. The mother tree from which this 
specimen was propagated was none other than the famous Bodhi tree 
under which Siddhartha Gautama the Lord Buddha was sitting when he gained enlightenment. 

In the 3rd century BC, it was brought to Sri Lanka by Sangamitta Theri,
the daughter of Emperor Asoka and founder of an order of Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka. In 288 BC

Today this sacred tree is worshiped by Buddhists from all around the world.