Goals: Grow food

The tree bean of Manipur — long flat pods with a pungent unmistakable smell.

The thick-rooted chive of Manipur, eaten root and leaf together.

Grows on water or wet mud and crops every fortnight through the monsoon.

A peppery salad green for a shady tray of running or frequently changed water.

The same lotus, grown in deep mud for the crisp rhizome of the Kashmiri kitchen.

Big heart leaves on a wet corner; the corm below and the leaf above both go to the pot.

Enormous upright leaves for a wet shaded corner — architecture rather than a crop.

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

A slender Western Ghats evergreen with purple fruit that souring curries depend on.

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