Regions: West India

Thorny, nitrogen-fixing and useful on land nobody else will plant.

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.

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.

Handsome, thorny and productive on poor dry soil; good in a big pot.

Evergreen, wind-firm and cropping twice a year on the coasts.

The tree the coasts are built on — water, kernel, oil, thatch and shade.

A coastal tree that fruits on poor laterite where almost nothing else does.