Kalyan Varma's Image

Veins reach across the wings and around the embryo of the seed of the Andaman redwood.

Kalyan had searched through the leaf-litter beneath some of these magnificent trees to find the perfect seed. 'They are only slightly larger than a coin and very delicate,' he says. 'It took me a while to find one that was not torn, crushed or old.' It is, he says, difficult to do justice to the grandeur of these trees - also known as East India mahogany and found only on the Andaman Islands of India - and to the amazing engineering and design of their wind-dispersed seeds. He wants people to pause and puzzle over what they are looking at. 'It could, at first glance, be the roots of some strange organism, or the veins of part of an animal or a leaf,' he says. 'I want people to slowly realise what it is and marvel at the intricacies of nature.'