Regions: north-east

One enlarged white sepal per flower, so the whole shrub reads as pale bracts.

The bamboo that covers Mizoram, and whose mass flowering brings the rat floods.

The deep red night-flowering lily of eastern tanks and temple ponds.

Grows on water or wet mud and crops every fortnight through the monsoon.

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

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

Glossy drooping new leaves in pink, then white flowers with a gold centre.

Orange-yellow flowers whose scent carries across a whole garden at dusk.

Pink blossom in November, out of season by every other measure — the hill wild cherry.

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