Regions: east

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.

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

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

Flowers open white and turn crimson over three days; scents a whole verandah.

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

Blue butterfly pea — a light climber that fixes nitrogen and makes blue tea.

Passion flower — intricate blooms and the host plant of tawny coster butterflies.

Flat clusters of small stars that butterflies can actually land on.