Regions: Central India

Central India’s most important livelihood tree — flowers, oil and shade.

The dominant tree of eastern and central forest; only for reforestation planting.

The timber tree of the deccan, straight-boled and deep-rooted.

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.

Host tree of the lac insect, with brilliant red leaf flush in spring.

Sacred, enormous and the most valuable bird tree in any Indian city.

The tree that becomes a grove; only for parks, campuses and village greens.

Figs in bunches straight off the trunk, feeding birds, bats and monkeys.

Flushes pink-red new leaves in spring; a broad, fast shade tree.