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दो सौ साठ भारतीय पौधे, उसी तरह दर्ज किए गए जैसे लोग असल में बागवानी करते हैं — जगह के हिसाब से, मौसम के हिसाब से, और आप पौधे से क्या चाहते हैं उसके हिसाब से।
Use the filters on the plant archive to narrow by goal, growing space and season. Every record carries a Hindi name, a botanical name, a care note and the months in which to sow.
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तमरिल्लोतमरिल्लोSolanum betaceumEgg-shaped tart fruit on a soft-wooded small tree of the eastern hills.
इस्कुसइस्कुसSechium eduleThe squash that covers a whole roof in one season across the eastern hills.
गुरलुगुरलुCoix lacryma-jobiHard glossy grain used as food, as beads and as a brewing grain in the hills.
चीनाचीनाPanicum miliaceumA short-season millet of the northern hills, sown when the season has been lost.
नील ऑर्किडनील ऑर्किडVanda coeruleaThe blue vanda of Meghalaya — tessellated flowers, and protected in the wild.
खुरखुरीखुरखुरीHydrocotyle sibthorpioidesA tiny creeping mat for the wet edge of a tub — the softest possible ground cover.
जपाजपाHibiscus syriacusA hardier deciduous hibiscus for the hills, flowering through the monsoon.
चीलचीलCallistemon citrinusRed brushes of stamens on drooping branches; a hardy naturalised garden tree.
तेजपत्तातेजपत्ताCinnamomum tamalaThe tejpatta of the sub-Himalayan tract — three-veined leaves, straight off the tree.
सिलमसिलमPerilla frutescensSesame-like seeds used across the eastern Himalaya in chutney and oil.
तिमूरतिमूरZanthoxylum armatumTimur — the numbing hill pepper of the eastern Himalaya, on a thorny shrub.
चायचायCamellia sinensis var. assamicaThe tea of the Brahmaputra valley — one bush on a balcony is enough for a pot.
खुबानीखुबानीPrunus armeniacaLadakh and Himachal fruit — blossom in March, fruit in June, dried for winter.
तेजपत्तातेजपत्ताCinnamomum tamalaThe tejpatta of north Indian cooking — a hill tree, not the Mediterranean bay.
शहतूतशहतूतMorus albaFruit in March, silkworm leaves all summer, and shade in between.
अंजीरअंजीरFicus caricaTwo crops a year in the west, and content in a large container.
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