| Latin name | Psidium guajava L. | | Family | Myrtaceae | | Identified with (Skt) | peruka | | Identified with (Hin) | amrūd | | Identified with (Tam) | koyyā | | Identified with (Mal) | pēra, koyya, aṭakkāppaḻam | | Identified with (Eng) | Common guava, Guava tree | | Botanical info | A small tree up to 8 m high cultivated all over India, leaves simple, opposite, light green oblong or elliptic-oblong, flowers white, fragrant in axillary 1 - 3 flowered cymes, fruits globose or pyriform berries varying in size and shape, pulp yellowish white or red | | Search occurrence | peruka, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Psidium guajava L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1155)
koyyā: 01 Guava, a tree, Psidium guyava
02 A weaving instrument
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