Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Damp ground
Mature size
20–40 cm
First harvest
Tubers at 6 months
Family
Cyperaceae
Where it grows
ground
Good for
healing
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Contain it in a pot; in open ground it never leaves.
A sedge most people fight as a weed, though its tuber is an old perfume material.
Growing it
Contain it in a pot; in open ground it never leaves.
What it is for
Traditional aromatic; only grow it deliberately, and confined.