Tamarind - Tart And Sweet Fruit | Versatile Spice For Savory And Sweet Dishes, Drought-resistant, Medium-growth Tree, Evergreen Leaves

We are the loyalist in manufacturing, exporting and supplying an extensive assortment of Tamarind in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Tamarind is a very popular spice, used vividly in asian countries. This fruit is very tart and acidic and is used as a component of a savoury dishes. When the fruit is ripe it is sweeter yet is distinctively sour and is used in desserts.The tamarind is a long-lived, medium-growth, bushy tree, which attains a maximum crown height of 12 to 18 metres (40 to 60 feet). The crown has an irregular, vase-shaped outline of dense foliage. The tree grows well in full sun in clay, loam, sandy, and acidic soil types, with a high resistance to drought and aerosol salt (wind-borne salt as found in coastal areas).

Leaves are evergreen, bright green in color, elliptical ovular, arrangement is alternate, of the pinnately compound type, with pinnate venation and less than 5 cm (2 inches) in length. The branches droop from a single, central trunk as the tree matures and is often pruned in human agriculture to optimize tree density and ease of fruit harvest. At night, the leaflets close up.

The tamarind does flower, though inconspicuously, with red and yellow elongated flowers. Flowers are 2.5 cm wide (one inch), five-petalled, borne in small racemes, and yellow with orange or red streaks. Buds are pink as the four sepals are pink and are lost when the flower blooms.