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.

The forest ancestor of the orchard mango, still fruiting in eastern hill forest.

A tough dry-forest tree with papery winged seeds that blanket the ground in March.

The scented heartwood tree of the southern Deccan — a hemiparasite that needs a host.

The red-timbered endemic of the Andhra hills; slow, valuable and heavily poached.

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.