Kadamb Tree (Neolamarckia cadamba): Can It Grow in Jaipur? Care, Benefits and Meaning
Neolamarckia cadamba
Kadamb, Krishna's monsoon tree with golden ball-shaped flowers, comes from wet tropical country. Here is an honest guide to growing it in Jaipur's heat and frost, when and how to plant it, how much water it needs, and how it differs from the native kaim or kalam.
Kadamb in Braj, poetry and worship
In the Bhagavata Purana, Krishna climbs "a very high kadamba tree" on the Yamuna bank before leaping into the river to face the serpent Kaliya. In another episode he takes the gopis' clothes and climbs to the top of a kadamba. These scenes are why the tree is held sacred to Krishna and loved across Braj.
It runs through Hindi poetry too. Raskhan wished that, if born a bird, he could nest in the kadamb branches on the Yamuna's bank. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan's well-loved children's poem Yah kadamb ka ped begins with a small boy telling his mother that if only this kadamb stood on the Yamuna's bank, he would sit in it and slowly become Kanhaiya.
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