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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