Latin name | Artocarpus hirsutus Lam. | Family | Moraceae | Identified with (Skt) | lakuca | Identified with (Tam) | kāṭṭuppalā | Identified with (Mal) | ayani, ayanipḷāvu, āññali, āññili | Identified with (Eng) | Wild jack | Botanical info | A tall, evergreen tree with straight bole and dense foliage growing in evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, grey, smooth bark, ovate leaves, yellow hairy stipules, fruits spinous, oblong, cylindrical, 5 - 7,5 cm long, yellow when ripe | Search occurrence | lakuca, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | See plant's image | Artocarpus hirsutus Lam. in Google image search | Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 891) lakuca (MBh., Suśr. &c.), m. a kind of bread-fruit tree, Artocarpus Lacucha (a tree containing a large quantity of sticky milky juice); n. the fruit of this tree. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 852) kāṭṭuppalā: Jungle jack, l. tr., Artocarpus hirsuta
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