Seasons: Monsoon

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

Central India’s most important livelihood tree — flowers, oil and shade.

The dominant tree of eastern and central forest; only for reforestation planting.

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

A deccan hardwood whose bark and heartwood have long traditional use.

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.