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Shami

Name: Shami
Brand: Gamla
SKU: GM-PL-SHM-6
Price: 399 INR
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The tree the Pandavas hid their weapons in, kept alive on almost no water at all.

Prosopis cineraria · शमी Shami / जांड Jand

Pet safeSlow growerSacredFestivalEasy care

₹399Inclusive of all taxes. Free delivery in Nagpur over ₹299.

Suits: Garden · Entrance · Balcony
In vastu: North-East
Size: 6" pot · grows to 45 cm
Gift for: Dussehra · Diwali · Housewarming

A slow, thorny little desert tree with a story bigger than its pot. Full sun, water only when the soil is bone dry, and mind the thorns near small hands and paws — the rest of it asks for almost nothing.

Light

Full Sun

Water

Low

Care

Easy

Safe around cats and dogs

No known toxicity to household pets.

Add a plastic grow pot — +₹50

Prepaid only. Live plants can’t be sent cash-on-delivery — a refused delivery comes back dead.

30-day replacement guarantee. If it arrives damaged or declines within 30 days, send us a photo and we replace it.

Botanical name	Prosopis cineraria
Also known as	शमी Shami / जांड Jand
Size	6"
Light	Full Sun
Placement	Outdoor, Balcony
Mature height	45 cm
Delivery	Nagpur only
Handling	Standard
SKU	GM-PL-SHM-6
Country of origin	India

Keeping it alive

Water	Only when the soil is bone dry, and less through winter. This is a desert tree with a taproot built for months without rain — overwatering is the one real way to kill it.
Light	Full sun, as much as you can give it. Built for open desert light; it will not thrive in shade.

What it actually does

Carries a story

Traditionally — In the Mahabharata, the Pandavas hid their weapons inside a Shami tree through their year of exile and retrieved them from it before the battle of Kurukshetra. That is why, on Dussehra, people exchange its leaves as a symbol of gold and victory. It is also associated with Shani, and worshipped on Saturdays to placate him — tradition keeps it outside rather than in the house, most often by the gate.

Has a place in vastu

In vastu tradition — Traditionally kept outside rather than indoors, most often near the entrance, and worshipped there every Dussehra.

Where it comes from

A keystone tree of the Thar desert, with a taproot that can run twenty metres down to reach water nothing else can. It is Rajasthan's state tree, and camels, goats and cattle live on its leaf and pod through a drought when nothing else stays green. In 1730, 363 Bishnois led by Amrita Devi died protecting a grove of these trees from the axe — a stand still marked every year, and among the earliest recorded environmental protests anywhere.

In the Mahabharata, the Pandavas hid their weapons inside a Shami tree through their year of exile and retrieved them from it before the battle of Kurukshetra. That is why, on Dussehra, people exchange its leaves as a symbol of gold and victory. It is also associated with Shani, and worshipped on Saturdays to placate him — tradition keeps it outside rather than in the house, most often by the gate.

In vastu

North-East

Traditionally kept outside rather than indoors, most often near the entrance, and worshipped there every Dussehra.

Vastu placement is a traditional belief, and we include it because people ask. Nothing here is a claim about health. How we treat vastu, and what it does not do.