Regions: west

Mosambi — a grafted tree in a big tub crops well in the west and centre.

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

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

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

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.

The most forgiving fruit tree for a small Indian garden or a big pot.

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

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.