PANDANUS Project  
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. in Pandanus database of Indian plant names
 •  Pandanus Homepage  •  Database of Plants  •  Publications  •  Sanskrit E-texts  •  Seminar of Indian Studies  •
 

  Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

Back to the list of plant names 

 
 Latin nameHibiscus rosa-sinensis L.
 FamilyMalvaceae
 Identified with (Skt)japā, oṇḍrapuṣpī
 Identified with (Hin)jasūm, jasūt, javā, oḍhul
 Identified with (Tam)cemparutti
 Identified with (Mal)cemparatti
 Identified with (Eng)Chinese hibiscus, Shoe-flower plant
 Botanical infoAn evergreen woody glabrous showy shrub, growing throughout India, leaves ovate, bright green, flowers showy, solitary and axillary, pedicels jointed with pistil and stamens projecting from the centre, anthers reniform or kidney shaped
 Search occurrencejapā, oṇḍrapuṣpī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageHibiscus rosa-sinensis L. in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 412)
japā, f. (= javā) the China rose, VarBṛS. xxviii, 14, BrahmaP. ii, 1, 7.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 235)
oṇḍra, as, m., N. of a country (the modern Orissa; see Lassen, IA. i, 224, note 2); (ās), m. pl. the inhabitants of that country, Hariv.; mn. x, 44; R. &c.; the China rose, L. - deśa, m., N. of the country Orissa. -pushpa, n. the flower of the China rose, L.

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1593)
cemparutti: 1. A kind of superior cotton used in making sacred thread; 2. Brazil cotton, s. tr., Gossypium arboreum


 
(c) 1998-2009 Seminar of Indian Studies, Institute of South and Central Asia, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. Development of this database of Indian plant names was made possible by the generous funding of the Grant Agency of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.