| Andaman Crape Myrtle |
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| File size | 505375 |
| Original date | 7/25/16 8:48 PM |
| Resolution | 1600 x 1200 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 120.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 8.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D750 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Lagerstroemia hypoleuca Family: Lythraceae (Crape Myrtle family)
Synonyms: Murtughas hypoleuca
Synonyms: Murtughas hypoleuca
Andaman Crape Myrtle is a large deciduous tree with
thin whitish bark. Leaves are simple, distichous, nearly opposite,
nearly stalkless, elliptic to ovate oblong or lanceshaped, thinly
leathery, pale beneath. Flowers are many, showy, borne in large
cylindrical or narrowly pyramidal panicles at branch-ends. Sepal tube
is funnel shaped, woody, ribbed. Petals are purple or lilac, clawed and
crisped. Fruit is woody, capsular, ovoid, dark brown, supported by
persistent calyx, splitting in to valves. Seeds are small, many, flat,
membranous and winged. Andaman Crape Myrtle is endemic to Andaman
Islands. It is the state flower of A & N Islands. Flowering:
July-August.
| Identification credit: Joju P. Alappatt | Photographed in South Andaman. |
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