Goals: healing

Feathery-leaved and drought-hardy; one grafted tree feeds a household in winter.

The kewda of Odisha — spiny leaves and a male flower distilled for scent.

Purple trumpet flushes twice a year, and leaves that smell of garlic when crushed.

A spiny yellow-flowered shrub of dry scrub, unbothered by heat or thin soil.

Flowers every day of the year and asks for nothing. Indigenous to the deccan.

Orange flower clusters straight off the trunk — a sacred tree, now threatened.

The fastest useful tree there is — 3 m in a year, edible leaves and pods.

Plant single cloves in October and lift whole bulbs in March.

A Himalayan ginger relative with scented white flowers and aromatic rhizomes.

Palmarosa — a scented grass of the central hills, distilled for its rose-like oil.