Sowing months
Jun–Jul
Sunlight
Part shade
Water
Regular; it dislikes drying out
Mature size
6–10 m
First harvest
Flowers year six
Family
Fabaceae
Where it grows
ground
Good for
beauty, biodiversity, healing
Sow in
monsoon
Care
Real Ashoka, not the columnar Polyalthia sold under the name.
Orange flower clusters straight off the trunk — a sacred tree, now threatened.
Growing it
Real Ashoka, not the columnar Polyalthia sold under the name.
What it is for
Sacred flowers and traditional bark use; conservation planting.