# Judas Tree

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'''Judas Tree''' is a common name for a flowering tree, ''[Cercis siliquastrum](/source/Cercis_siliquastrum)'' with the common name a reference to the [biblical New Testament suicide](/source/Bible) of [Judas Iscariot](/source/Judas_Iscariot) after betraying the Messiah Jesus Christ in the [Land of Palestine](/source/Palestine_(region)) where the tree species is endemic to.

'''Judas Tree''' may also refer to:

* Other flowering tree species in the genus ''[Cercis](/source/Cercis)''
* ''[The Judas Tree](/source/The_Judas_Tree)'', a 1961 novel by A. J. Cronin
* [''The Judas Tree'' (ballet)](/source/The_Judas_Tree_(ballet)), by Kenneth MacMillan
* [''The Judas Tree'' (Jonathan Creek)](/source/The_Judas_Tree_(Jonathan_Creek)), an episode of ''Jonathan Creek''
* ''Ballad of the Judas Tree'', (poem) [D. Ruth Etchells](/source/Ruth_Etchells)<ref name="Etchells">{{cite web |title=The Ballad of the Judas Tree |url=https://www.americanlutheranchurch.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ALC-Newsletter-May-June-2017-1.pdf |website=American Lutheran Church, Newport, WA |publisher=American Lutheran Church, Newport, WA |date=May 2017| access-date=2026-04-02}}</ref>
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