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Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal
Family	Solanaceae
Identified with (Skt)	aśvagandhā, varāhakarṇī
Identified with (Hin)	asagandh, punīr
Identified with (Tam)	amukkirā, amukkirakkiḻaṅku
Identified with (Mal)	amukkuram
Identified with (Eng)	Winter cherry
Botanical info	An undershrub reaching 150 cm in height, growing throughout the dries parts of India, also cultivated, leaves ovate up to 10 cm long, flowers greenish or lurid yellow in axillary fascicles, fruits globose berries, orange when mature, enclosed in persistent calyx, fleshy roots when dry are cylindrical
Search occurrence	aśvagandhā, varāhakarṇī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
See plant's image	Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal in Google image search
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 115) aśvagandhā, f. the plant Physalis Flexuosa, Suśr. Comm. on, KātyŚr. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 944) vārāhakarṇī, f. Physalis Flexuosa. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 106) amukkira: Indian winter cherry, s. sh., Withania somnifera Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 106) amukkirā: Indian winter cherry, s. sh., Withania somnifera

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