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It is not native to Gujarat's climax dry deciduous, thorn, or ravine forest biomes. It exists in Gujarat exclusively as an introduced, fast-growing agroforestry tree, green-manure crop, live vine support, or domestic vegetable tree cultivated on irrigated agricultural land, field bunds, and homestead gardens (vadas) across South Gujarat (Surat, Navsari, Valsad), Central Gujarat (Anand, Kheda, Vadodara), and parts of Saurashtra. Under the Gujarat Forest Department non-forest census, it is enumerated as a minor agroforestry species
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"Gujarat Forest Department. (2013). Status of Trees Outside Forests (TOF) in Gujarat State. Forest Resource Survey Report, Gandhinagar."