Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Rain-fed
Mature size
8–11 m
First harvest
Timber from year twenty-five
Family
Fabaceae
Where it grows
ground
Good for
biodiversity
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Endemic and protected; plant nursery stock and keep the paperwork.
The red-timbered endemic of the Andhra hills; slow, valuable and heavily poached.
Growing it
Endemic and protected; plant nursery stock and keep the paperwork.
What it is for
Conservation planting; dye and timber by tradition.