Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Fortnightly
Mature size
2–4 m
First harvest
Fruit year four
Family
Rutaceae
Where it grows
ground, terrace
Good for
food, healing
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Only female plants fruit; plant several.
Timur — the numbing hill pepper of the eastern Himalaya, on a thorny shrub.
Growing it
Only female plants fruit; plant several.
What it is for
Timur pepper and traditional toothache use.