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Pueraria tuberosa DC. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Pueraria tuberosa DC.
Family	Leguminosae
Identified with (Skt)	vidārī
Identified with (Hin)	vidārīkand, surāl
Identified with (Mal)	mutukku
Identified with (Eng)	Indian kudzu
Botanical info	A large spreading tuberous herbaceous twiner, growing throughout India, leaves 3-foliate, flowers blue or purplish blue in leafless racemes, fruits membranous, flat, jointed pods clothed with long silky hairs
Search occurrence	vidārī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
See plant's image	Pueraria tuberosa DC. in Google image search
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 966) vidāri (m.c.), f. = -dArī, Hedysarum Gangeticum, Suśr. (also -gandhā, Car.); N. of a female demon, VarBṛS. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 966) vidārī, f. Batatas Paniculata, L.; Hedysarum Gangeticum, L.

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