Goals: Biodiversity

The tree of the Thar — Rajasthan’s state tree, feeding people and stock in drought.

Thorny, nitrogen-fixing and useful on land nobody else will plant.

Glossy-leaved and salt-tolerant, with seed oil once used in every lamp.

Central India’s most important livelihood tree — flowers, oil and shade.

The dominant tree of eastern and central forest; only for reforestation planting.

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.

The tree the coasts are built on — water, kernel, oil, thatch and shade.