Phyllanthus emblica
Terai · Siwalik (Chure) · Middle Hills
A small sour fruit packed with more vitamin C than an orange. Eat one and the next sip of water tastes sweet.
Doing okay
Grows in this belt
Contents
Plants of Nepal
Ecosystem
Climate change
Environment-friendly behaviour
Plants of Dolakha
- Province
- Bagmati
- Elevation
- 1000–8848 m
- Belts
- Middle Hills · High Mountains · High Himal & Trans-Himalaya
0 m1000–8848 m8,848 m
The weather here
Cool green hills with terraced farms and oak, rhododendron and pine forest. Most Nepali towns and villages sit in this belt.
12
plants
These plants grow in the belts this district spans. Not all have been individually recorded here.
Dendrocalamus hamiltonii
Terai · Siwalik (Chure) · Middle Hills
Not a tree at all — bamboo is a giant grass, and one of the fastest growing plants on Earth.
Doing okay
Grows in this belt
Pinus roxburghii
Siwalik (Chure) · Middle Hills
The pine of the middle hills, with long needles and sticky resin that smells sharp and sweet.
Doing okay
Grows in this belt
Swertia chirayita
Middle Hills · High Mountains
A bitter mountain herb used for fever. Many hill families earn real money growing it — which is why growing it matters more than digging it.
At risk
Grows in this belt
Betula utilis
High Mountains · High Himal & Trans-Himalaya
The last tree you meet before the mountain becomes rock and snow. Ancient books were written on its papery bark.
Doing okay
Grows in this belt
Juniperus indica
High Mountains · High Himal & Trans-Himalaya
A low, tough shrub burned as incense in mountain homes and monasteries. Its smoke smells like cold clean air.
Doing okay
Grows in this belt
Taxus wallichiana
High Mountains · High Himal & Trans-Himalaya
A slow, dark mountain tree whose bark contains a medicine used to treat cancer. That discovery nearly wiped it out.
In real danger
Grows in this belt
Rhododendron arboreum
Middle Hills · High Mountains
Nepal’s national flower. When the hills turn red in spring, this is the tree doing it.
Doing okay
Grows in this belt
Alnus nepalensis
Middle Hills
The tree that repairs broken land. Alder is usually the first thing to grow back on a landslide scar.
Doing okay
Grows in this belt
Ficus religiosa
Terai · Siwalik (Chure) · Middle Hills
The tree with heart-shaped leaves that whisper in the smallest breeze. Almost every Nepali village square has one.
Doing okay
Grows in this belt
Rhododendron anthopogon
High Himal & Trans-Himalaya
A tiny cousin of the gurans that grows above the treeline, in cushions low enough to hide from the wind.
Doing okay
Grows in this belt
Zanthoxylum armatum
Middle Hills
A thorny shrub whose peppery seed makes your tongue tingle and go slightly numb. Nepali pickle would be lost without it.
Doing okay
Grows in this belt