| Latin name | Tabernaemontana divaricata G.Don | | Family | Apocynaceae | | Identified with (Lat) | Ervatamia coronaria (Jacq.) Stapf, Ervatamia divaricata (L.) Burkill, Tabernaemontana coronaria Willd. | | Identified with (Skt) | nandīvṛkṣa | | Identified with (Hin) | cāndanī | | Identified with (Tam) | nantiyāvaṭṭam, aṭukkunantiyārvaṭṭai | | Identified with (Mal) | nantyāṛvaṭṭam, nantyāvaṛttam | | Identified with (Eng) | East Indian rosebay | | Botanical info | A glabrous evergreen shrub growing throughout India, also cultivated, leaves simple, opposite, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, flowers white, sweetly fragrant in 1 - 8 flowered cymes, fruits follicles, orange or bright red, seeds dull brown | | Search occurrence | nandīvṛkṣa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Tabernaemontana divaricata G.Don in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 527)
nandīvṛkṣa, m. N. of sev. plants (Bignonia Suaveolens, Cedrela Toona &c.), L. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 2152)
nantiyāvaṭṭam: East Indian rosebay, 1. sh., Taberœmontana coronaria
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