Regions: East India

A century-tree with feathery shade and the sourness of half of Indian cooking.

Evergreen, wind-firm and cropping twice a year on the coasts.

The tree the coasts are built on — water, kernel, oil, thatch and shade.

Slim palm of the wet south-west and north-east, grown in dense stands.

A coastal tree that fruits on poor laterite where almost nothing else does.

Sour fruit straight off the trunk, in constant supply on the wet coasts.

Ribbed yellow fruit several times a year on a compact tree.

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

Tall and narrow, dropping long white scented flowers through the night.

The tree the subcontinent is organised around; a grafted plant fruits in four years.