The malayalam word ചുളിതാമര can also be used as the fruit of the same has some wrinkles or reticulations and the petioles are slightly ridged add twisted in nature
On Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 10:58:46 AM UTC+5:30 Dinesh Valke wrote: > Dear Sam ji, > Many many thanks for this elaborate clarification. > To avoid any ambiguity, we will avoid the name ചുളിതാമര chulithamara, > unless someone validates it to be appropriate. > > For now, let us use the following names: > ചെളിതാമര chelithamara > കുഴിതാമര kuzhithamara > > Many many thanks. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM Sam Kuzhalanattu <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Dinesh ji, >> In Malayalam, chuli ചുളി or chulivu means wrinkles, but I doesn't observe >> any kind of wrinkled charector related to the plant, and the plant is >> growing in fresh water or swampy habitat, simply neglected area filled with >> water. >> As growing in this habitat, it is named in Malayalam as *chelithamara >> ചെളിതാമര, cheli* means mud with or without water, *താമര thamara* means >> lotus (truly it is not a lotus, but having lotus type charectors) and >> wrongly named as 'chuli'. If anywhere described that the plant has >> wrinkles, we can accept the name chulithamara ചുളിതാമര. And the name 'ചുഴി >> chuzhi' means whirl. >> >> Another name *kuzhithamara കുഴിതാമര* (കുഴി means pit) is correct. >> Regards, Sam. >> >> >> >> On Fri, 17 Oct, 2025, 3:10 pm Dinesh Valke, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Sam ji, also please check / validate this name found in A >>> Malayalam and English dictionary >>> <https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/gundert/> by Hermann Gundert >>> കുഴിത്താ താമര kuzhithaa thaamara >>> >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Sam ji, >>>> Please help validate whether the Malayalam name culi tamara of >>>> *Limnophyton >>>> obtusifolium* (L.) Miq. listed in FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal >>>> Plants >>>> <https://envis.frlht.org/plantdetails/2797/abd2cdedc0194d8fac3cd520e4695745> >>>> is >>>> written as ചുഴി താമര chuli taamara. >>>> >>>> Regards. >>>> Dinesh >>>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/443ef957-76d9-46f0-ae46-400f2d33df84n%40googlegroups.com.
