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List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape AreasMosquito repellent plants - TREES
Holarrhena antidysentricaEaster Tree/Ivory Tree
Sub-Deciduous foliage treeHeight: 12-18 m Spread: 15-21 mFlower: Small, white, honey scented
flowers Bloom Season: Summer Exposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Salt resistant, mosquito
repellent, shade treeAverage life: 70-80 years
Deciduous flowering treeHeight: 6-7 mFlower: White or creamy scented flowersBloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Mosquito repellent
Azadirachta indicaNeem
Medicinal / Herbal Plants – TREES
Aegle marmelos Azadirachta indicaBel Fruit Neem
Sub-Deciduous foliage treeHeight: 12-18 mSpread: 15-21 mFlower: Small, white, honey scented flowersBloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Salt resistant, mosquito repellent, shade treeAverage life: 70-80 years
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape Areas
Height: 10.5-13.5 mSpread: 9-12 mFlower: Greenish white, fine scentedBloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sun to partial shadeSpecial Feature: Medicinal properties in its
fruit and leaves
Deciduous foliage tree
Average life: 80-90 years
Medicinal / Herbal Plants – TREES
Ashok, Sita AshokSaraca asoca (Syn. S. indica) Phyllanthus emblica
Amla
Special Feature: Very pretty, flowers inclusters, planted in clumps
Special Feature: Fruits rich in vitamin ‘C’
Height: 6-9 m Spread: 6-9 mFlower: Orange- red scented flowers Bloom Season: SummerExposure: Prefers semi-shady situation
Evergreen flowering tree
Average life: 80-100 years
Deciduous foliage treeHeight: 9-12 mSpread: 7.5-10.5 mFlower: Very small greenish yellowBloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sun
Average life: 65-70 years
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape Areas
Medicinal / Herbal Plants – TREES
Amaltas, Indian LaburnumCassia fistula Bauhinia variegata
Purple orchid tree
Height: 10.5-13.5 mSpread: 9-13.5 m Flower: Yellow in pendent bunches, scentedBloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Leafless at flowering
Deciduous flowering tree
Average life: 50-60 years
Deciduous flowering treeHeight: 9-13.5 mSpread: 9-12 mFlower: Scented pink to mauve flowers Bloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Orchid like flowersAverage life: 30-40 years
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape Areas
Medicinal / Herbal Plants – TREES
Height: 18-24 m Spread: 12-18 m Flower: Dull yellow, not very prominentBloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Excellent shade tree
Deciduous foliage tree
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape Areas
ArjunTerminalia arjuna
Sub-deciduous foliage treeHeight: 12-18 mSpread: 15-21 mFlower: Small, white, honey scented flowersBloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Salt resistant, mosquito
repellent, shade treeAverage life: 70-80 years
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape AreasSacred Trees For Meditation
Aegle marmelosBael Fruit
Special Feature: Medicinal properties in its fruit and leaves
Height: 10.5-13.5 mSpread: 9-12 mFlower: Greenish white, fine scentedBloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sun to partial shade
Deciduous foliage tree
Average life: 80-90 years
Azadirachta indicaNeem
Michelia champacaGolden Champa Tree
Height: 15-21 m Spread: 12-15 mFlower: Ball shaped, scented,
yellow flowers Bloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Quick growing tall tree
Deciduous flowering tree
Average life: 80-90 years
Evergreen flowering treeHeight: 9-15 mSpread: 7.5-10.5 m Flower: Strongly scented yellow flowersBloom Season: Throughout the yearExposure: Moderate amount of sunlight Special Feature: Flowers used as offering to
the gods at Hindu templesAverage life: 60-70 years
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape AreasSacred Trees For Meditation
Anthocephalus kadambaKadamba
Sacred Trees For Meditation
Height: 7.5-12 mSpread: 6-9 mFlower: Yellow, orange and orange scarletBloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Planted for its flower
beauty
Deciduous flowering tree
Average life: 40-50 years
Evergreen foliage treeHeight: 15-21 mSpread: 12-15 mFlower: Small yellowish and strongly scentedBloom Season: Summer & rainy seasonExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Very attractive with
new leaves and flowers
Average life: 150-160 years
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape Areas
Butea monosperma Mangifera indicaMangoFlame of the Forest
Ficus bengalensisBanyan Tree
Ficus religiosaPipal Tree
Sacred Trees For Meditation
Height: 15-21 m Spread: 18-24 m Flower: Not prominent, green flowersBloom Season: SummerExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Very shady, provides shelter and food to birds
Evergreen foliage tree
Average life: 150-200 years
Sub-Deciduous foliage treeHeight: 12-18 m Spread: 15-24 mFlower: Not visible, enclosed in figExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Believers sit under sacred fig for meditationAverage life: Longest lived trees
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape Areas
Artocarpus altilis (Syn. A. incisa)Breadfruit Tree
Evergreen foliage treeHeight: 20-25 mSpread: 12-15 mFlower: Small green and yellowExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Large deeply lobed
glossy leaves
Height: 15-21 mSpread: 25-40 mFlower: Greenish white, scented
flowersBloom Season: AutumnExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Scented flowers fill the night air with fragrance in autumn months
Evergreen foliage tree
Average life: 60-70 years
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape Areas
Alstonia scholarisDevil’s tree
Pterospermum acerifoliumKanak champa
Evergreen flowering treeHeight: 15-19.5 mSpread: 9-13.5 mFlower: Creamy white, sweet scented
flowers
Exposure: full sunSpecial Feature: Good for avenue plantation
Bloom Season: Summer
Average life: 80-100 years
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape AreasEvergreen Trees
Ficus elasticaIndian Rubber Tree
Height: 25-30 mSpread: 25-30 mExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Quick growing, smooth and shiny leaves
Evergreen foliage tree
Evergreen TreesList Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape Areas
Plumeria albaWhite champa / White Frangipani
Height: 3 m Spread: 3 m Flower: Yellow, white or pink, fragrantBloom Season: Almost throughout the yearExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Fruits, world wide as
an ornamental plant
Evergreen flowering tree Evergreen flowering treeHeight: 3-4.5 mSpread: 4.5-6 mFlower: Scented white flowers
Exposure: Full sun to partial sunSpecial Feature: Hindus use the
flowers in worship
Bloom Season: Almost throughout the year
Average life: 10-15 years
Thevetia nerifolium (syn. T. peruviana)Yellow oleander/ Lucky nut
Cinnamomum camphoraCamphor Laurel/Kappur
Evergreen flowering treeHeight: 20-30 m Spread: 40-60 m Flower: Small white particles of
flowers, not showyExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Greyish green, scented leaves
Height: 6 m Spread: 2 m
Exposure: Semi shadeSpecial Feature: Golden in full sun
Evergreen bamboo
Flower: Not decorativeBloom Season: Randomly
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape AreasEvergreen Trees
Phyllostachys aureaGolden bamboo
Bauhinia purpureaMountain ebony/ Kachnar
Delonix regiaGulmohar
Height: 9-12 mSpread: 10.5-13.5 mFlower: Purple, white and mauve flowersBloom Season: WinterExposure: Sun to partial shade
Special Feature: Fragrant flowers
Flowering tree
Average life: 40-50 years
Deciduous flowering treeHeight: 12-15 m Spread: 15-20 mFlower: Orange red
Exposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Gives mass effect of color & quick growing tree
Bloom Season: Summer
Average life: 50-60 years
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape AreasDecidious Trees
Samanea saman(Syn. Pithecolobium saman)
Rain tree
Swietenia mahoganiMahogany
Height: 20-25 mSpread: 25-30 mFlower: Puffs of pink flowersBloom Season: Throughout the yearExposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Large, handsome and spreading tree
Deciduous flowering treeDeciduous foliage treeHeight: 20-30 mSpread: 10-15 mFlower: Inconspicuous greenish yellow flowers
Exposure: Full sunSpecial Feature: Large beautiful tree
Bloom Season: Summer
List Of Suggested Plants For Different Landscape AreasDecidious Trees
