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Limonia acidissima L., Sp. Pl. ed. 2 554 1762. (syn. Anisifolium limonia Kuntze; Crateva balangas K.D.Koenig; Crateva vallanga K.D.Koenig ex Wight & Arn.; Feronia balanghas (K.D.Koenig) Steud.; Feronia elephantum Corrêa; Feronia limonia (L.) Swingle; Schinus limonia L.); .
¿ lie-MOW-nee-uh ? — from Persian limuna or Arabic limoin
ass-id-ISS-ee-muh — from Latin acidus (very sour) … Dave’s Botanary . commonly known as: curd fruit, elephant apple, monkey fruit, wood apple • Arabic: tuffâhh el fîl • Bengali: কপিত্থ kapittha, কয়েতবেল kayetabela • Gujarati: કોઠા kotha, કોઠી kothi • Hindi: दधिफल dadhiphal, दन्तसठ dantasath, कैथ or कैथा kaith, कपित्थ kapitth, कठबेल katabel, कावित kavit, मन्मथ manamath, पुष्पफल pushpaphal • Kannada: ಬೇಲದ ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ಮರ baelada hannina mara, ಬೇಲದ ಮರ baelada mara, ದಧಿಫಲ dadhiphala, ದಮ್ತಸಟ damtasata, ಕಪಿಠಾ kapithha, ಮನಮಥ ಮರ manmatha mara, ನಾಯಿಬೆಲ nayibel • Malayalam: നായ് വേലം naay veelam, വിളങ്കായ് vilankaay • Marathi: कपित्थ kapith, कवंठ kavant, कवंठी kavanti, कवठ kavat • Oriya: koyito • Prakrit: कइत्थं kaittham, कइत्थो kaittho • Sanskrit: दधिफल dadhiphala, दधित्थ dadhittha, दन्तशठ danthashatha, कपित्थं kapithama, कपित्य kapitya, कपित्यं kapityama, पुष्पफल pushpaphala • Tamil: கபித்தம் kapittam, கவித்தம் kavittam, தந்தசடம் tantacatam, விளா vila, விளா மரம் vilamaram, விளாம்பழம் vilampazam • Telugu: కపిత్థము kapitthhamu, వెలగ velaga, వెలగపండు velagapandu . Native to: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand .
This one is commonly known as “Wood Apple, Kovit“.
Bot. name: Limonia acidissima Family: Rutaceae. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonia_(plant) The pulp of this fruit along with jaggery is used in preparation of Chatanii. It is real tasty…
Fruits and vegetables week- MS010511 – 1:
The wood apple hanging from trees. Botanical name is *Feronia limonia*. Pulp is edible. It can be eaten raw wih jaggery or made into juice, which is coolant during summer. Belada hannu in Kannada.
Flora of Haryana: Limonia acidissima from Karnal Near NDRI Campus: yes it is called kavath in Marathi and a deleicious chatani is made from its pulp esp on Mahashivratari day It is also known as Kaith. I experienced its sharp thorns during my childhood. But also tried to fell few fruits- some ripe and some of them fully ripe. Enjoyed the taste. And in the bargain got scolding. . VALMIKI : OBSERVER OF NATURE:       Wood apple is an erect, slow-growing tree with a few upward-reaching branches bending outward near the summit where they are subdivided into slender branchlets drooping at the tips.
The bark is ridged, fissured and scaly and there are sharp spines 3/4 to 2 in long on some of the zigzag twigs. The deciduous, alternate leaves, 3 to 5 in long, dark-green, leathery, often minutely toothed, blunt or notched at the apex, are dotted with oil glands and slightly lemon-scented when crushed.
Yellowish green flowers, tinged with red, 1/2 in across, are borne in small, loose, terminal or lateral panicles.
The tree is mostly known for its hard woody fruit, size of a tennis ball, round to oval in shape. The pulp is brown, mealy, odorous, resinous, astringent, acid or sweetish, with numerous small, white seeds scattered through it.
. Rutaceae week: Limonia acidissima at Chennai:
syn: Feronia limonia (L.) Swingle; Feronia elephantum Correa; Schinus limonia L.
Common names: Wood apple, Elephant apple
Hindi: Kaith, Bilin
Beng: Kait, katbel
Guj: Kavit, kotha, kothun
Mar: Kavatha, kavith
Tel: Velaga
Tam: Vilanga
Photographed from Herbal Garden, Punjabi Bagh, Delhi             Rutaceae week: Feronia limonia (Limonia acidissima) from Hooghly: Attaching images of Feronia limonia L. recorded from two different places in Hooghly.
Species : Feronia limonia L. (syn. Feronia elephantum Correa., Limonia acidissima L., Schinus limonia L.)
Habit & Habitat : large tree, roadside, garden
Date : 03-05-2012 (1st Set), 09-05-12 (2nd Set)
Place : Gobra (1st Set), Garalgacha (2nd Set)
ID help : 1) http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.SpeciesInfo
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limonia_(plant)
3) https://groups.google.com/indiantreepix/W9–qOi6bgY
Rutaceae week: Limonia acidissima:
Rutaceae week: Limonia acidissima (Feronia elephantum) ‘Kavath’ कवठ Only two of the native genera of Maharashtra have distinctly winged petioles. Limonia and Naringi. Limonia acidissima is a moderate sized tree. Spines straight sharp. Leaves imparipinnate. Tip crenulate. I am not sure whether it is native because some sources say it to originate from Java and planted for its fruits.
      Rutaceae Week :: Limonia acidissima at Mumbai and Mahabaleshwar:
Limonia acidissima L. ¿ lie-MOW-nee-uh ? — from Persian limuna or Arabic limoin
ass-id-ISS-ee-muh — from Latin acidus (very sour) … Dave’s Botanary Apr 14, 2012 … at Sagar Upvan, Mumbai
commonly known as: curd fruit, elephant apple, monkey fruit, wood apple • Arabic: tuffâhh el fîl • Bengali: কপিত্থ kapittha, কয়েতবেল kayetabela • Gujarati: કોઠા kotha, કોઠી kothi • Hindi: दधिफल dadhiphal, दन्तसठ dantasath, कैथ or कैथा kaith, कपित्थ kapitth, कठबेल katabel, कावित kavit, मन्मथ manamath, पुष्पफल pushpaphal • Kannada: ಬೇಲದ ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ಮರ baelada hannina mara, ಬೇಲದ ಮರ baelada mara, ದಧಿಫಲ dadhiphala, ದಮ್ತಸಟ damtasata, ಕಪಿಠಾ kapithha, ಮನಮಥ ಮರ manmatha mara, ನಾಯಿಬೆಲ nayibel • Malayalam: നായ് വേലം naay veelam, വിളങ്കായ് vilankaay • Marathi: कपित्थ kapith, कवंठ kavant, कवंठी kavanti, कवठ kavat • Oriya: koyito • Prakrit: कइत्थं kaittham, कइत्थो kaittho • Sanskrit: दधिफल dadhiphala, दधित्थ dadhittha, दन्तशठ danthashatha, कपित्थं kapithama, कपित्य kapitya, कपित्यं kapityama, पुष्पफल pushpaphala • Tamil: கபித்தம் kapittam, கவித்தம் kavittam, தந்தசடம் tantacatam, விளா vila, விளா மரம் vilamaram, விளாம்பழம் vilampazam • Telugu: కపిత్థము kapitthhamu, వెలగ velaga, వెలగపండు velagapandu Native to: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand References: Flowers of India • ENVIS – FRLHT • Wikipedia • Purdue University • World Agroforestry Centre • M.M.P.N.D. • Digital Dictionaries of South Asia more views: Apr 14, 2012 … at Sagar Upvan, Mumbai Feb 17, 2008 … along Mahabaleshwar – Wai Road, Maharashtra Small favor to ask: I may be wrong but I think in Gujarati its called Kotthu for singular fruit and કોઠા kotha, for plural fruits… and never heard or read it as Kotthi… the feminine name is not usually heard or used.. A hard copy of a publication of GEER Foundation (Gujarat Ecology and Enviornment Research Foundation) had the names: કોહું kohu, કોઠા kotha, કોઠી kothi I have 2 or 3 dumb little questions; you ask: I Quote: “You don’t mention કોથા Kotha, is this wrong?” Q: re Kotthi … is feminine … refers to the tree (mother) that bears the Kotthu fruit …
Thanks for asking this question, I ended up spending a lot of time looking thru tons of books, and learnt that what one learns in good schools and precise parents while one was a wee child remains in some unknown recesses in the brain and come up when needed… the books and dictionaries bore out the stored data in the recesses of the cortex somewhere .. Based on the educated advice of … (a native speaker I am guessing) I propose the following entry for Gujarati names of Limonia acidissima L. in all databases. Apologies again. A slight error. a h was wondering around. Quote:. Do you approve Usha di?: …. This is a nice idea … I had a similar brainstorm about these concepts with a Catalan colleague last year. For any given plant there can be also leaf, flower, root (especially in medicinal plants), derived extracts, products etc. I am thinking here of oil, essential oil, wax etc. In a presentation such as mine or … in his well known listings it could add many extra lines. As far as databases are concerned it would probably mean extra fields. So for practical reasons I cannot really adopt this presentation. I find it hard enough keeping tracks of all the (masc.) (fem.) (sing.) (plur.) (prod.) etc. These listings are always a compromise unfortunately. We can only do the best we can. Sharing pictures of Limonia acidissima at a private society at Pune
Family: Rutaceae
Common name wood-apple, elephant-apple, monkey fruit, and curd fruit
In Marathi- KavaTH (कवठ). Very nice photographs. It is very difficult to get the close up of the flowers of this tree, so nicely. Is it flowering now? Yes … it is in full bloom looking reddish with flowers and that is the reason it caught my attention
Species : UNKNOWN
H & H : about 8 to 10 ft high
Date : 20/12/12
Place : Hooghly Looks like Bilva Aegle marmelos ? not sure. Limonia acidissima
Rutaceae
Kavath कवठ tree. Thank you very much … and …, i have an earlier post – yet i failed to identify, thought some other species!
Fruit Trees of Bangalore – RA – Limonia Acidissima – Wood Apple Tree – Kaith:
Wood apple is an erect, slow-growing tree with a few upward-reaching branches bending outward near the summit where they are subdivided into slender branchlets drooping at the tips. The bark is ridged, fissured and scaly and there are sharp spines 3/4 to 2 in long on some of the zigzag twigs.
The deciduous, alternate leaves, 3 to 5 in long, dark-green, leathery, often minutely toothed, blunt or notched at the apex, are dotted with oil glands and slightly lemon-scented when crushed.
Yellowish green flowers, tinged with red, 1/2 in across, are borne in small, loose, terminal or lateral panicles.
The tree is mostly known for its hard woody fruit, size of a tennis ball, round to oval in shape. The pulp is brown, mealy, odorous, resinous, astringent, acid or sweetish, with numerous small, white seeds scattered through it.
Ref. Wood-Apple We have this tree in our state as well as I have seen few trees in Delhi (…, I hope I am not wrong). But I have never seen this in flowering stage, only finding wood apple.. thanks for showing this remarkable beauty. Beautiful pictures of
Limonia acidissima from Alha Udal Akhara Maihar MP
This was an ancient large tree there
pls validate    ID 23042015PHK 1 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3)
ID Please It’s Limonia acidissima Yes Limonia acidissima
Somehow the colour of anthers is yellowish white here which is mostly maroon to brown       It is my pleasure to share few images of Limonia acidissima (Rutaceae)
Habit: Medium-Large tree
Habitat: Dry deciduous forests.
Sighting: Tumkur, Karnataka, about 800 msl
Date: 23-09-2014 and 01-03-2015 we call it kath-bel. very sour
   SH22/2/2017 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (3)
Date/Time-22/2/2017
Location- Mangalore Habitat- Wild Plant Habit- Shrub Height-3 meter Flower- Reddish white Limonia acidissima L. [Rutaceae].       Limonia acidissima FOR VALIDATION :: Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park :: 24 OCT 18 : 5 posts by 2 authors. 6 images.
Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park Jodhpur Date: October 24, 2018 … Altitude: about 300 m (980 feet) asl
¿ Limonia acidissima ? and ¿ parasite / climber ?
Dear friends,
The small tree with winged-rachis leaves could be Limonia acidissima; please validate. Not sure whether the other wire-branched plant is some climber, or a parasite like Viscum, or just another plant growing in crunched space. Please help with their IDs; hopefully the photos help. Could the other “wire plant” be Ephedra foliata ? Looks different from images at Check for plants with winged rachis. On further checking, both your ids appear close to me as per Limonia acidissima and Ephedra foliata
Limonia acidissima-080510-PKA2 – efloraofindia | Google Groups .
 Rutaceae: Limonia acidissima L.: 1 image. synonyms: Feronia elephantum Corrêa, Feronia limonia (L.) Swingle, Schinus limonia L.
location/date: Amravati District, Maharashtra, November 1994
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