Regions: east

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

A tall hill-forest tree with pinnate leaves and scented pink-tinged timber.

Yellow flower spires and copper seed pods; the summer partner to the gulmohar.

The forest ancestor of the orchard mango, still fruiting in eastern hill forest.

Bare branches and orange claws of flower in February — the tree that announces Holi.

Fat red flowers on a bare grey trunk, then pods of cotton that blow down every street.

Crocodile-bark and big leathery leaves; the tasar silk tree of central India.

A large deciduous tree of the Deccan, tapped traditionally for its red kino gum.

The true ashoka — orange flower clusters on a small shade-loving tree of wet forest.

Sesame-like seeds used across the eastern Himalaya in chutney and oil.