Fruits & Vegetables :: Indian Gooseberry :030111:AK-7

[Aarti S. Khale]

Indian Gooseberry or Amla at Delhi.
Aarti

[tanay bose]

nice close up

tanay

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Aarti S. Khale <aarti...@gmail.com> wrote:

Indian Gooseberry or Amla at Delhi.
Aarti

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[Muthu Karthick]

This might be a hybrid cultivar.

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[Dinesh Valke]

NATIVE, WILD, CULTIVATED :: Phyllanthaceae (leaf flower family) » Phyllanthus emblica
Synonyms: Emblica officinalis (popular), Mirobalanus embilica


fil-LAN-thus -- flower leaf; it appears to flower from a leaf like stem
EM-blee-kuh -- Latinized form of Sanskrit amalakah (sour)
oh-fiss-ih-NAH-liss -- official; used in pharmacological sense


commonly known as: emblic myrobalan, Indian gooseberry • Assamese: আম্লখি amlaki • Bengali: আমলকী amlaki • Gujarati: આમળા amla, આમલક amalak • Hindi: आमला amla, आंवला anwla, बहुमूली bahu-muli, ब्रह्मवृक्ष Brahma vriksh • Kannada: ಆಮಲಕ aamalaka, ಬೆಟ್ಟ ನೆಲ್ಲಿ betta nelli, ದೊಡ್ಡ ನೆಲ್ಲಿ dodda nelli • Kashmiri: आमलकी amalaki, ओम्ल omala • Khasi: dieng sohmylleng • Konkani: आवळो avalo • Malayalam: നെല്ലി nelli, നെല്ലിക്ക nellikka • Manipuri: আমলা amla, heikru • Marathi: अवळा avala, आंवळा aanvala • Mizo: sinhlu • Nepalese: अमलो amalo • Oriya: aula • Pali: आमलक amalak • Punjabi: ਆਂਵਲਾ anwala, ਆਉਲਾ aula • Sanskrit: अकर akara, अमलाः amalah, आमलकः amalakah, ब्रह्मवृक्ष Brahmavriksh, धात्रिका dhatrika, मण्डा manda, राधा radha, शंभुप्रिया shambhupriya, शिवा shiva, श्रीफली shriphali, सुधा sudha, तमका tamaka, तिष्या tishya, वज्रम् vajram, विलोमी vilomi • Tamil: ஆமலகி amalaki, அமிர்தபலம் amirta-palam, அத்தகோரம் attakoram, சிரோட்டம் cirottam, சிவை civai, இந்துளி intuli, கந்தாத்திரி kantattiri, காட்டுநெல்லி kattu-nelli, கோங்கம் konkam, கோரங்கம் korankam, நெல்லி nelli, தாத்திரி tattiri, தேசோமந்திரம் tecomantiram, தோப்புநெல்லி toppu-nelli, தோட்டி totti • Telugu: ఆమలకము amalakamu, ధాత్రి dhatri, నెల్లి nelli, ఉసిరి usiri • Urdu: آنولا anwla


Native to: s China, India, Indo-China, Malesia; cultivated elsewhere in tropics


Edible use:

... unripe fruit (as VEGETABLE)  ... pickled, or added to food preparations, as a substitute for tamarind.
... ripe fruits are also eaten.

[Pankaj Oudhia]

Thanks for Sharing Dinesh ji. Here is link to my (only) contribution to Wikipedia, picture of Aonla pickle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gmt_054.jpg

regards

Pankaj Oudhia

2011/1/5 Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com>