Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Weekly for two years
Mature size
20–30 m
First harvest
Timber from year twenty
Family
Meliaceae
Where it grows
ground
Good for
biodiversity
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Fast in the hills, slower and shabbier in the hot plains.
A tall hill-forest tree with pinnate leaves and scented pink-tinged timber.
Growing it
Fast in the hills, slower and shabbier in the hot plains.
What it is for
Furniture timber; a canopy tree for hill restoration.