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Ziziphus budhensis is a small tree (8 to 10 m) from the Timal region of Nepal, grown mainly for its edible fruit and for seeds used in prayer malas. Like other jujubes it is a sun-loving, drought-tolerant tree grown outdoors in warm climates.
Ziziphus budhensis is a species of plant in the family Rhamnaceae, endemic to the Temal region of Bagmati Province, Nepal.
Ziziphus budhensis has an edible fruit and the tree is also used as cattle fodder. The seeds are used as beads to make malas (rosaries), known as Bodhichitta malas, Buddha chitta mala, or Bodhi seed malas, used in Tibetan Buddhist worship. These are highly valued with a mala of 108 beads costing up to 80 thousand Nepalese Rupees. However the price of the mala varies according to the diameter and the face of the seed. Smaller the diameter bulkier is the price. Similarly mala with one face is most expensive followed by five faced, four faced, three faced, 2 faced and so on. Reportedly the Timal region boasts an annual Buddhachitta trade worth one billion Nepali rupees ($9.8 million) and the beads are being exported from Nepal to India, China, Singapore, Japan, and Korea. The Government of Nepal's Ministry of Forestry has established a committee and has begun to distribute the seedling of the plant so as to uplift the economic status of the people living in this area. Numbers of nurseries have been established raising the seedling of it.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ziziphus budhensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
