| Latin name | Woodfordia fruticosa Kurz | | Family | Lythraceae | | Identified with (Lat) | Woodfordia floribunda Salisb. | | Identified with (Skt) | dhātakī, madanīyahetu | | Identified with (Hin) | dāvi, tāvi, dhāy | | Identified with (Tam) | tāttari, jārkī, veḷakkāy | | Identified with (Mal) | tātiri, tātirippū | | Identified with (Eng) | Fire-flame bush, Shiranjitea, Woodfordia | | Botanical info | A deciduous shrub growing throughout India, 3 - 7 m high, leaves simple, opposite, entire, with black dots on the undersurface, flowers numerous, red in dense axillary clusters, fruits ellipsoid, seeds obovoid, brown | | Search occurrence | dhātakī, madanīyahetu, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Woodfordia fruticosa Kurz in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 514)
dhātaki, m. N. of one of the 2 sons of Vīti-hotra Praiyavrata (king of a Varsha of Pushkara-dvīpa), Pur.; (ī), f. Grislea Tomentosa, Suśr.
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