As an artistic element, often the tree and the yakshi are subject to heavy stylization.
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One of the recurring elements in Indian art, often found at gates of Buddhist and Hindu temples, is the sculpture of a yakshini with her foot on the trunk and her hands holding the branch of a flowering ashoka tree.
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A popular tree known as "false ashoka tree" or even as "ashoka tree", Polyalthia longifolia, is cultivated to resemble the growth pattern of erect pillar-like Mediterranean cypress trees It is a popular park and garden plant, much used in landscaping on the Indian subcontinent.