Gifts from ancestors take the darndest forms. Mine included a tamarind tree, the tallest and most magnificent in our yard. My grandfather’s grandfather—a tall, corpulent Indian, prone to indulging in ...

AMONG fruit trees of the tropics, none is more widely distributed and appreciated as an ornamental tree than the tamarind. Tamarind is best known for its mouth-watering fruit. It is commonly known ...

The tamarind tree is much prized in many parts of the world for its beauty and its fruit. Tamarinds are leguminous trees because they produce fruit in the form of a bean-like pod. This bean contains a ...