Goals: biodiversity

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.

Glossy drooping new leaves in pink, then white flowers with a gold centre.

A thorny yellow-wooded Himalayan shrub with blue berries and traditional root use.

Pink blossom in November, out of season by every other measure — the hill wild cherry.

A Himalayan cherry with long fruit racemes that thrushes and bulbuls strip in weeks.

The wild amla of the southern hills, smaller-fruited and tougher than the orchard kind.

The sap palm of Bengal and the Deccan, tapped in winter for nolen gur.

A woody climber with fringed white-and-yellow flowers and a heavy sweet scent.

A nitrogen-fixing pioneer of Himalayan landslides and north-eastern jhum fallows.