
Amala
Phyllanthus emblica
A small sour fruit packed with more vitamin C than an orange. Eat one and the next sip of water tastes sweet.
- Regions
- Terai · Siwalik (Chure) · Middle Hills
- Elevation
- 100–1500 m
- Flowers in
- March, April
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Plants
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Sindhuli

Phyllanthus emblica
A small sour fruit packed with more vitamin C than an orange. Eat one and the next sip of water tastes sweet.
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Dendrocalamus hamiltonii
Not a tree at all — bamboo is a giant grass, and one of the fastest growing plants on Earth.
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Pinus roxburghii
The pine of the middle hills, with long needles and sticky resin that smells sharp and sweet.
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Senegalia catechu
A thorny tree of dry riverbeds. Its heartwood is boiled down to make katha, the brown paste used in paan.
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Rhododendron arboreum
Nepal’s national flower. When the hills turn red in spring, this is the tree doing it.
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Alnus nepalensis
The tree that repairs broken land. Alder is usually the first thing to grow back on a landslide scar.
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Ficus religiosa
The tree with heart-shaped leaves that whisper in the smallest breeze. Almost every Nepali village square has one.
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Shorea robusta
The great tree of the Terai forests. Its timber is so strong that Nepali houses built from it stand for a hundred years.
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Bombax ceiba
In late winter the simal drops every leaf and covers itself in huge red flowers instead. Birds come from everywhere to drink.
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Dalbergia sissoo
A fast riverside tree of the Terai, planted along roads for shade and prized for furniture wood.
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Zanthoxylum armatum
A thorny shrub whose peppery seed makes your tongue tingle and go slightly numb. Nepali pickle would be lost without it.
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