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 Latin nameArtocarpus hirsutus Lam.
 FamilyMoraceae
 Identified with (Skt)lakuca
 Identified with (Tam)kāṭṭuppalā
 Identified with (Mal)ayani, ayanipḷāvu, āññali, āññili
 Identified with (Eng)Wild jack
 Botanical infoA 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 occurrencelakuca, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageArtocarpus 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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