Plantain tree

Plantain tree (Wyl. chu shing) - The plantain tree looks large with big leaves, but when you peel it, it is not solid. The ‘chushing’, translated as plantain or banana tree bears fruit once, then dies. Gendün Chöpel, on his pilgrimage to India, painted this tree and sent it back to Tibet, claiming he had found the real ‘chushing’ tree, and that it was a kind of pine.