Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Full sun
Water
Weekly for two years
Mature size
15–25 m
First harvest
Fruit from year eight
Family
Combretaceae
Where it grows
Garden / ground
Good for
Biodiversity, Herbs & healing
Sow in
Monsoon
Care
A tree for institutional planting, not a home garden pot.
One of the three fruits of triphala; a large deciduous tree of the sub-Himalayan tract.
Growing it
A tree for institutional planting, not a home garden pot.
What it is for
Triphala by tradition; important host tree for moths.