Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Fortnightly
Mature size
3–5 m
First harvest
Fruit year three
Family
Malvaceae
Where it grows
ground, terrace
Good for
food
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Cut it to a metre each winter; fruit comes on new wood.
Small sour-sweet berries in May, from a shrub that shrugs off a Delhi summer.
Growing it
Cut it to a metre each winter; fruit comes on new wood.
What it is for
Phalsa sherbet — the summer drink of the north.