Regions: East India

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

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

Cut-and-come-again greens ready in six weeks from a shallow trough.

The monsoon green that grows itself — heat-proof, rain-proof, ready in a month.

Peppery leaves in five weeks, and yellow flowers for the bees after.

A slender twiner of scrub and hedges, with fragrant roots and small dark flowers.

A slow, tough native tree for a hot courtyard, with fruit that makes the summer sherbet.

The street tree of the plains; even a potted seedling supplies leaves for a pest spray.

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.