Seasons: Monsoon

A riverbank giant with pale bark — a campus or park tree, not a pot.

The biggest citrus, tolerant of humidity and common in eastern gardens.

Host tree of the lac insect, with brilliant red leaf flush in spring.

Double-lobed aromatic leaves used across the north-east and the far south.

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

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

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

Sacred, enormous and the most valuable bird tree in any Indian city.

The tree that becomes a grove; only for parks, campuses and village greens.

Figs in bunches straight off the trunk, feeding birds, bats and monkeys.