Goals: Grow food

A thorny slow tree of dry country with a hard-shelled sour fruit.

The tree the subcontinent is organised around; a grafted plant fruits in four years.

One tree feeds a street. Green for sabzi, ripe for the sweetest fruit there is.

The most forgiving fruit tree for a small Indian garden or a big pot.

Fruit inside a year from seed — the fastest fruit a household can grow.

A single sucker in a corner gives shade, cooking leaves and, in time, fruit.

A small deccan tree that fruits on very little water and poor soil.

Orchid-like flowers in February, and buds that go into the north-Indian kitchen.

The national flower — a big tub, full sun and patience is all it takes.

Blue butterfly pea — a light climber that fixes nitrogen and makes blue tea.