Goals: biodiversity

Golden champa — a tall tree whose flowers are sold by the handful at dusk.

A shrubby pulse that stands two years, fixes nitrogen and shelters small birds.

Upright, bell-flowered and ancient; the oilseed of the dry season.

Palmarosa — a scented grass of the central hills, distilled for its rose-like oil.

The third triphala fruit, from a broad-crowned tree of dry deciduous forest.

A thorny desert shrub whose resin has been traded for millennia; now endangered.

A prickly low solanum of wasteland, with violet flowers bumblebees buzz-pollinate.

An intensely bitter Himalayan herb of mid-altitude meadows, slow and particular.

The lichen of the spice box — not planted, but a reason to keep old trees standing.

A hill herb of stream banks with aromatic roots and heads of small white flowers.