Gular Tree (Ficus racemosa): Where It Grows in India and How to Plant It
Ficus racemosa
Gular (गूलर), the cluster fig, is Ficus racemosa, a native fig tree of India's rivers and ponds. What a gular tree looks like, why nobody sees its flower, where it grows in India, how to plant it and care for it for three years, and what to watch out for.
Planting calendar
- North plains (Indo-Gangetic) · Monsoon · Jul, Aug
- Central India · Monsoon · Jul, Aug
- East India · Monsoon · Jul, Aug
- Northeast India · Monsoon · Jul, Aug
- West coast · Monsoon · Jul, Aug
- South peninsula · Monsoon · Jul, Aug
- Northwest arid · Monsoon · Jul, Aug
A guide: only beside a pond, canal or drain, or where young plants can be watered through the first summers; plant once the rains have wetted the soil.
- East coast · Post-monsoon · Oct, Nov
A guide for the Tamil Nadu coast, where the main rains come with the north-east monsoon.
This article was prepared with AI assistance and checked by the GreenEye team against the sources shown in each section.
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