Mysterious Tress

Mysterious Tress that bear fruits in the shape of women:

Nariphon Tress:

The Nariphon also known as Makkaliphon.Which bears fruit in the shape of young female creatures. The maidens grow attached by their head from the tree branches. This tree grows at the Himaphan, a mythical forest where the female fruits are enjoyed by the Gandharvas who cut the fruits and take them away.

                                                                        Thai lacquerwork painting of the Naripon tree at Phra Pathom Chedi.

Folklore of Nariphon: 

According to Buddhist mythology God Indra created a pavilion (Sala) as an abode for Vessantara and his wife and two children to live. His wife went into the forest to collect fruits and was in danger of being attacked by Hermits or Yogis who lived in the forest who had not conquered lust, although they had acquired special powers from their meditation. Therefore Indra created twelve of this special Nariphon trees which would bear fruit whenever she went out to collect food and so distract these men. Being all in the image of Indra's beautiful wife, like sweet-smelling naked sixteen-year-old girls, the men took the fruits to their place of abode and after making love to them would sleep for four months and lose their powers.

Nariphon Tress

According to Thai folklore, since Vessantara and his family have died, the trees bear fruit daily. The special forest, trees and sala will disappear when the Buddha's teachings have become lost, predicted to be five thousand years after his death. When these fruit appear on the trees they are like beautiful 16 year old girls and they will last for seven days, following which they will wither and die if they are not picked up. In the heavenly realms males and females are eternally youthful and, since there is no suffering, there is no ageing. They have same internal organs as humans, but no bones. These maidens have also magic powers and possess spirits which can sing and dance.

There are supposedly two Makaliporn pods in a Buddhist temple near Bangkok. It is said that they came from Himaphan, the mythical forest. At Wat Pheut Udom temple near Pathum Thanithere is a representation of the tree together with ghosts and hell-scenes. Representations of the Nariphon tree are very common in Thai comic books, both fresh and dry, often inmanga style. Amulets and charms in the form of Nariphon girls are sold throughout Thailand. Folk stories claim that the tree grows somewhere in the Phetchabun Mountains.

Fruit of Nariphon Tree

BOTTOM LINE

The Naripon Trees are a hoax. Images of the tree were concocted using manufactured effigies of women. No believable or trustworthy information can be found which confirms the reality of this tree, and no searches were performed on Google regarding this tree until 2008.That’s why we can’t say it is true or fake…