Goals: healing

A cold-desert shrub of Ladakh, nitrogen-fixing and vitamin-dense.

A slow evergreen of the wet south-west, harvested as unopened flower buds.

Glossy-leaved and salt-tolerant, with seed oil once used in every lamp.

A deccan hardwood whose bark and heartwood have long traditional use.

A riverbank giant with pale bark — a campus or park tree, not a pot.

Kagzi lime — the single most useful pot tree for an Indian household.

The kokum of the Konkan — a slim tree with fruit that makes the summer drink.

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

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

Purple fruit in June and dense evergreen shade for the rest of the year.