Regions: Central India

The small-flowered jasmine of the monsoon, sweeter at dusk than at noon.

Green by day and overpowering by night; plant it away from a bedroom window.

Drops its scented white flowers at dawn — the harsingar of temple courtyards.

Flowers through the hottest months on almost no water. Every part is poisonous.

Jowar — drought-hardy grain and fodder in one, on almost no inputs.

One of the small millets of tribal central India, quick and undemanding.

An old and quick millet, sown as a catch crop when the rains come late.

A hill millet that tolerates waterlogging better than any other grain.

Grown for seed rather than leaf; magenta heads over the whole monsoon.

One corm fills a large pot and returns a much bigger one in a year.