Regions: east

Pods, beans and green manure from one undemanding monsoon plant.

A sedge most people fight as a weed, though its tuber is an old perfume material.

A thick-leaved climbing spinach that thrives in the worst of the monsoon heat.

Ridged monsoon gourd, quick to climb and quicker to over-mature.

A tough climber that fruits through the worst humidity of the year.

A riverbank giant with pale bark — a tree for a campus or a colony park, not a pot.

One of the three fruits of triphala; a large deciduous tree of the sub-Himalayan tract.

The third triphala fruit, from a broad-crowned tree of dry deciduous forest.

The black nightshade of monsoon fields — a leafy green in the east, a weed elsewhere.

A tiny monsoon herb that appears in every wet pot, with fruit strung under the leaf.