jewel trees

'[I]n this our world no jewels make their appearance like those which exist in the world system Sukhavati.

[T]hat world system . . . is . . . adorned with jewel trees. . . . And these jewel trees, Ananda, have various colours, many colours, many hundreds of thousands of colours. They are variously composed of the seven precious things, in varying combinations, i.e. of gold, silver, beryl, crystal, coral, red pearls, or emerald. Such jewel trees . . . grow everywhere in this Buddha-field.'

'Scripture of the Pure Land (Sukhavatvyuha), third century B.C.E. As quoted in Chinese Religion: An Anthology of Sources, edited by Deborah Sommer, 1995.