Many many thanks Girish Kumar ji for clarification and validation of this name ചുളിതാമര chulithamara. Will update my notes shortly. Regards. Dinesh
On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM girish kumar ellezhuthil < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/IPIoky2JvfI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/443ef957-76d9-46f0-ae46-400f2d33df84n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CABSQqC2w_exBk5qEUZKEFFWPtntfjFV20%3DmRH0%3Dd9JRztVEbUA%40mail.gmail.com.
