Goals: Biodiversity

The banj oak that holds the water in a Himalayan hillside; slow, dense and vital.

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.

Big palmate leaves and white flower candles in the western Himalayan valleys.

Red brushes of stamens on drooping branches; a hardy naturalised garden tree.

Yellow flower spires and copper seed pods; the summer partner to the gulmohar.

Maroon night flowers on long ropes, then metre-long fruit that alarms everybody.

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.

A large deciduous tree of the Deccan, tapped traditionally for its red kino gum.