These plants hold cultural, medicinal, and ecological significance, making their scientific names worth remembering.

Fruit trees. Consider planting a guava tree. Make sure it’s a tropical guava (Psidium guajava) and not a pineapple guava (Feijoa sellowiana) or a strawberry guava (Psidium callleianum).

A common piece of health advice is to eat more local and seasonal foods. As winter begins in India, particular fruits and veggies become available that you may not get otherwise. Image Credit: Pexels ...

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While it may seem like an unlikely place to grow such native fruits, the cemetery is also an arboretum. And in this “museum of trees,” said Joseph Charap, vice president of horticulture at the ...