| Aqua Dendrobium |
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| File size | 326534 |
| Original date | 11/1/14 1:37 PM |
| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Dendrobium aqueum Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Callista aquea
Synonyms: Callista aquea
Aqua Dendrobium is an orchid growing on trees. Stem
is club-shaped, leafy during flowering. Leaves are alternate,
bifarious, ovate-lanceate, 5-10 x 1-2 cm, base rounded, tip tapering.
Flowers are white, about 4 cm across, 2-3 from leaf-axils. Petals are
broader than sepals. Lip is rhombic, faintly 3-lobed, tinged with
yellow, margin erose, mid-lobe triangular, mentum short, incurved. Aqua
Dendrobium is endemic to Western Ghats. Flowering: September-December.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Silent Valley, Kerala. |
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