Tree of money: visitors trade cash for luck in botanical garden(4/4)

Photo taken on Oct 19, 2014 shows notes tied to threads around a ficus religiosa in Xi’an Botanical Garden of Shaanxi province. Tourists trade cash for good luck, staffs said. The species of fig, revered for its religious significance by Buddhists and Hindus, is rarely seen in northwest China. [Photo: hsw.cn]