Goals: Biodiversity

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 timber tree of the deccan, straight-boled and deep-rooted.

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.

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