Regions: Islands & the coast

Double-lobed aromatic leaves used across the north-east and the far south.

Tiered branches and huge leaves that turn red before falling — a coastal shade tree.

Evergreen, wind-firm and cropping twice a year on the coasts.

The tree the coasts are built on — water, kernel, oil, thatch and shade.

Slim palm of the wet south-west and north-east, grown in dense stands.

A coastal tree that fruits on poor laterite where almost nothing else does.

The abolí of southern flower markets — orange fans, picked daily.

One tree feeds a street. Green for sabzi, ripe for the sweetest fruit there is.

Fruit inside a year from seed — the fastest fruit a household can grow.

The flame tree of Indian summers; fast, spectacular and shallow-rooted.