Sowing months
Mar–Apr
Sunlight
Full sun to part shade
Water
Moist hill soil
Mature size
10–20 m
First harvest
Fruit from year six
Family
Rosaceae
Where it grows
ground
Good for
biodiversity
Sow in
winter
Care
A hill forest tree; plant it in mixed company, not alone.
A Himalayan cherry with long fruit racemes that thrushes and bulbuls strip in weeks.
Growing it
A hill forest tree; plant it in mixed company, not alone.
What it is for
Bird food; hill forest restoration.