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What is kurdu in english?

The species Celosia is known by the common name Kurdu in Konkani and Marathi.

Celosia

Celosia is a genus of edible and ornamental plants of the amaranth family, Amaranthaceae. Species are commonly known as woolflowers, or, if the flower heads are crested by fasciation, cockscombs. The principal cultivated vegetable species are C. argentea var. cristata and C. Trigyba which are grown for their edible leaves and shoots.

In English, Kurdu (Celosia) is known by Woolflower.

A palm tree growing in the shade will not bear ripe fruit.
—Afghan proverb