Regions: South India

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

A single sucker in a corner gives shade, cooking leaves and, in time, fruit.

A small deccan tree that fruits on very little water and poor soil.

A thorny slow tree of dry country with a hard-shelled sour fruit.

Flat clusters of small stars that butterflies can actually land on.

Yellow chandeliers in May, when the city most needs something to look at.

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

Huge red cups in February that feed every bird in the neighbourhood at once.

A fast native shade tree with scented ball flowers and city birds in it.

Scarlet flowers on bare branches in spring; grows from a stuck-in cutting.