Goals: Biodiversity

A riverbank giant with pale bark — a campus or park tree, not a pot.

Host tree of the lac insect, with brilliant red leaf flush in spring.

The fastest usable material on earth; one clump supplies poles for years.

Tiered branches and huge leaves that turn red before falling — a coastal shade tree.

The dry-country bamboo of central India, solid-stemmed and drought-hardy.

Purple fruit in June and dense evergreen shade for the rest of the year.

The fruit of the dry west, cropping where irrigation is impossible.

A century-tree with feathery shade and the sourness of half of Indian cooking.

A thorny hedge shrub that gives pickling fruit and keeps animals out.

Fruit in March, silkworm leaves all summer, and shade in between.