The Zarabad blood plane tree secretes a red gum similar to the blood of the human body every year at dawn on the day of Ashura. . This has caused this tree with its height of 30 meters and diameter of 10 meters to become a sacred place for everyone, especially the villagers.
Of course, with the experiments conducted on this liquid, results have been obtained that state that this red liquid chemically has nothing in common with human blood, but is only a gum-like substance that, unlike other gums and tree sap, after flowing and when It dries and turns red.
A study in history shows that the phenomenon of the blood plane tree dates back to the Safavid period. Written documents, all of which belong to the Qajar era, indicate the popularity of the blood plane phenomenon in the Safavid era, especially in the era of Shah Sultan Hossein.
Another remarkable point of this tree that must be mentioned is that due to the change of the lunar months every year, the oozing of the red substance from the Zarabad plane tree still happens on the day of Ashura. This issue is especially strange when the month of Muharram falls in the cold seasons of the year. It is not bad to know that the nature of this tree requires that this gum oozes only on hot days. Due to the cold weather in this region, which may reach several degrees below zero these days, gum seepage in this cold weather is a very strange issue.
Now, as always, a group is against this issue and they are looking for a scientific reason for it and they believe that this issue was and is a completely natural and spontaneous event. But the people of this village, who are trying hard to deny them, believe that on the day of Ashura, this tree also cries blood for the martyrdom of the martyrs.
In the end, one of the wonders of Zarabad Bloody Tree is that many people who witnessed the blood dripping from the branches of this tree on this day have claimed that the blood dripping from the branches of this scarred plane tree is as if fragrant with the fragrance of heavenly flowers. Is.
Now, people visit this holy tree every year with special etiquette and by holding white cloths under it, they wish for a drop of blood, a romantic wish that never ends.
The red gummy exudation, similar to human blood, with a smell as if it is fragrant with the fragrance of heavenly flowers, every year and on a specific and certain day, which is sometimes incompatible with the warm nature of the tree, shows nothing but the greatness of God’s work.