Limonia acidissima

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    

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: Valmiki mentioned KAPITTHA in his Ramayan. Scientifically this plant is Feronia limonia. It is Kait in Hindi and Kait or Katbel in Bangla. Attaching the image of a twig of KAPITTHA.

Rutaceae week: Limonia acidissima at Chennai: Bot. name: Limonia acidissima
Family: Rutaceae
Common name: Kawit, wood apple
Date/Time: 31st March/ 04:30PM
Location: Chennai

A hard copy of a publication of GEER Foundation (Gujarat Ecology and Enviornment Research Foundation) had the names: કોહું kohu, કોઠા kotha, કોઠી kothi
The word કોઠી is found in web page – Heritage Trees of Junagadh Municipal Corporation web site.

I have 2 or 3 dumb little questions;
You don’t mention કોથા Kotha, is this wrong?
Is Kothi = Kotthi, Kothu = Kotthu? if not what are the scripted words equivalent.
You list કોહું Kohu but Usha di mentions Kotthu. Please explain.
It is very informative to mention the differences between sing. plur. masc. and fem. Thanks Usha di. Those of us who do have grammatical genders in their language greatly appreciate these details. Some languages do not have plurals so it is also good to mention that there could be 2 forms of the same name depending on the number.
I humbly suggest to master Dinesh that it would be useful to add this info to names in such listings, something like (sing.) (plur.) (masc.) (fem.). Example કોઠી Kothi (fem.).

you ask: I Quote: “You don’t mention કોથા Kotha, is this wrong?”
MY Ans: yes, no such thing … this fruit is not called kotha કોથા
english spelling should be Kotthu for Gujarati spelling કોઠુ
its hard dental /dentate pronounciation .
And KOHU કોહું seems to be listed in a regional gujarati internet site.which seems written well, so I take it they are right in the listing it on their website page … may be a regional difference, some tribal gujarati name that is accepted locally…
I have not seen this કોહું Kohu in modern gujarati literature of educated folks, nor in gujarati dictionary and the gujarat state flora listing

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.
GUJARATI : કોઠા(Kotha) Khotta (fruit-plur.), કોઠી (kothi) Kotthi (tree-fem.), કોઠુ (Kothu) Kotthu (fruit-sing.), કોહું Kohu (reg.dial).
It includes all the information received so far. Job well done, thanks to all involved.
Could we have a suggestion for the best way to cite this in outside publications? I am keen to include this entry into the MMPND and I like to give credit when credit is due.
Please Usha di call me Mic or Michel or make up a cute Gujarati equivalent.

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.
I will always warmly welcome your comments regarding gender, number, flower, leaf, tree, fruit etc. in Gujarati and any other language.
As far as referencing I meant only how to acknowledge efloraofindia. Is there a standard citation or do we adapt to the subject matter?

”Id 26122011MR1’’ Limonia acidissima Pune: 26th Dec 2011

Is it flowering now?
I have seen the flowering in spring esp. in our area.

Yes … it is in full bloom looking reddish with flowers and that is the reason it caught my attention

prickly shrub or tree Hooghly 20-12-12 sk2:  Found this shrub or tree yesterday in village outskirts.

Kavath कवठ tree. 

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 Syn Feronia limonia Syn. Feronia elephantum.
Family : Rutaceae

Flora of Madhya Pradesh: Limonia acidissima from Alha Udal Akhara Maihar MP:  

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

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