| Latin name | Myristica fragrans Houtt. | | Family | Myristicaceae | | Identified with (Skt) | jātīphala | | Identified with (Hin) | jāyphal | | Identified with (Tam) | jātimaram, jātikkāy | | Identified with (Mal) | jāti, jātikkāmaram, jātikka | | Identified with (Eng) | Nutmeg tree, Mace tree | | Botanical info | An aromatic evergreen tree, cultivated in hotter parts of India up to 750 m, leaves elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, flowers creamy yellow, fragrant, in umbellate cymes, fruits yellow, broadly pyriform or globose, pericarp fleshy, splitting into two halves at maturity, seeds oblong, obtuse, aril yellowish red, irregularly lobed, extending to the apex of the seed | | Search occurrence | jātīphala, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Myristica fragrans Houtt. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 418)
jātīphala, n. = -ti-ph-, VarBṛS. xvi, 30; lxxvi, 27 and 33 Pañcad.ii, 66; (ā), f. Emblica officinalis, L. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 3872)
jātikkāy: 1. Nutmeg
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