Timur

• Middle Hills

Flowers inMarch, April

• 01The tingling is real — timur contains a chemical that gently buzzes the nerves in your lips.
• 02Village dentists once used timur to numb a sore tooth.

• Drying springs and drought

  How serious3/5

  Timur fruits poorly in dry years, so families who depend on selling it lose income exactly when the harvest fails.

• Take only what regrows

  Many Nepali medicine plants are disappearing because every last one gets dug up. There is a way to gather that leaves the plant alive.

• Save seeds

  Seeds are a plant’s way of sending itself into the future. Collecting and sharing them costs nothing at all.

Scientific name

Zanthoxylum armatum

Family

Rutaceae