Regions: south

Purple fruit in June and dense evergreen shade for the rest of the year.

The fruit of the dry west, cropping where irrigation is impossible.

A century-tree with feathery shade and the sourness of half of Indian cooking.

Feathery-leaved and drought-hardy; one grafted tree feeds a household in winter.

A thorny hedge shrub that gives pickling fruit and keeps animals out.

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

Curtains of orange through the cool months on a big pergola.

Tall and narrow, dropping long white scented flowers through the night.

The tree the subcontinent is organised around; a grafted plant fruits in four years.

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