Goals: Biodiversity

The kusha grass of ritual, holding sandy soil across the northern plains.

Twisted screw-shaped pods on a scrub shrub of the dry deciduous forest.

Sticky green fruit for the Rajasthani pickle jar, on a tough small tree.

The thorny bush that holds the Thar together, browsed by everything and killed by nothing.

The desert teak — orange trumpets on bare wood in March, on a tree that needs no water.

A leafless broom-like desert shrub that fixes sand and feeds camels.

Orange tubular flowers, continuously, and the sunbirds that follow them.

The southern vasaka — a shade-tolerant shrub with white hooded flowers.

Flowers nearly all year in a warm city, and sunbirds find it within a week.

One enlarged white sepal per flower, so the whole shrub reads as pale bracts.