The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peepul tree \Pee"pul tree`\ [Hind. p[=i]pal, Skr. pippala.] (Bot.) A sacred tree ( Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree. [Written also pippul tree, and pipal tree.]
Bo tree \Bo" tree`\ (Bot.) The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha.
The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists ( Ficus
religiosa), which is planted close to every temple,
and attracts almost as much veneration as the status of
the god himself. . . . It differs from the banyan
( Ficus Indica) by sending down no roots from its
branches.
--Tennent.
Wikipedia
Ficus religiosa or sacred fig is a species of fig native to the Indian subcontinent, south-west China and Indochina. It belongs to the Moraceae, the fig or mulberry family. It is also known as the bodhi tree, pippala tree, peepal tree or ashwattha tree (in India and Nepal).
Usage examples of "ficus religiosa".
Enough for half a dozen monographs - and there he was in an open space, eating Ficus religiosa.