Valley Puru Shrestha Nepal is a land of topographic contrasts, floristic diversity, and ethnic variations. Hee you can find plants of all descriptions ranging from tropical to alpine and mediterranean to Japanese species. It is estimated that there are about ten thousand species of flowering plants in Nepal of which nearly eight hundred species are medicinal, around one hundred and fifty are edible, and about an equal number of poisonous plants. Every plant is like an individual packed with an amusing story to tell and a powerful property to show.
Most plants are useful, some are harmful, but all are colorful and interesting.
It is quite easy to be familiar with them. Plants cannot talk with you but the local people who have close affinity with the local vegetation can give you a great deal of information about them. It is a small tree of 3-4m in height, armed with giant spines. Fruits are globose and are encapsulated in a greyish, pimpled purse-like jacket when young but splits into two halves upon maturation of the seed. A mature seed is oval and jet black in color with a highly wrinkled surface, hence often mistaken for a pepper as the English name indicates.