Goals: Biodiversity

A tiny creeping mat for the wet edge of a tub — the softest possible ground cover.

The wild ancestor of cultivated rice, still standing in eastern wetlands.

The shrub that turns the Nilgiri slopes blue once every twelve years, then dies.

The Malabar nutmeg of swampy Ghats forest — a myristica swamp indicator species.

A small-fruited endemic jamun of the southern hills, cropping through the monsoon.

Long hanging chains of maroon and yellow flowers — the Mysore clock vine.

A tall wet-evergreen tree of the southern Ghats, red-flushed in new leaf.

The canopy tree that feeds the lion-tailed macaque; endemic to the southern Ghats.

The wild jack of Malabar — timber for boats and fruit for the monkeys.

The tree bean of Manipur — long flat pods with a pungent unmistakable smell.