Regions: West India

Glossy-leaved and salt-tolerant, with seed oil once used in every lamp.

The timber tree of the deccan, straight-boled and deep-rooted.

The fastest usable material on earth; one clump supplies poles for years.

The dry-country bamboo of central India, solid-stemmed and drought-hardy.

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.

Small sour-sweet berries in May, from a shrub that shrugs off a Delhi summer.

Two crops a year in the west, and content in a large container.