Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Weekly the first two years
Mature size
15–25 m
First harvest
Timber year twenty
Family
Fabaceae
Where it grows
ground
Good for
biodiversity, healing
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Slow but very long-lived; a legacy planting.
A deccan hardwood whose bark and heartwood have long traditional use.
Growing it
Slow but very long-lived; a legacy planting.
What it is for
Traditional preparations; important dry-forest species.