Goals: healing

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

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.

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.