Thank you Dineshji
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 13:25 Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>>>>
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