Regions: east

White flowers with orange tubes that open at night and are on the ground by dawn.

The tejpatta of the sub-Himalayan tract — three-veined leaves, straight off the tree.

The sap palm of Bengal and the Deccan, tapped in winter for nolen gur.

A woody climber with fringed white-and-yellow flowers and a heavy sweet scent.

A soft-haired jasmine that flowers through the cool months on a low wall.

A pot by an open window does more for a summer evening than any air freshener.

Twisted screw-shaped pods on a scrub shrub of the dry deciduous forest.

An enormous umbrella crown of ferny leaves that folds shut before rain.

Cream powder-puff flowers, then papery pods that rattle all winter.

A scrambling roadside shrub with palmate leaves and small blue flower spikes.