| Bengal Coffee |
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| File size | 345306 |
| Original date | 3/26/16 5:41 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 140.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5300 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Coffea benghalensis Family: Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Synonyms: Psilanthus benghalensis
Synonyms: Psilanthus benghalensis
Bengal Coffee is a deciduous shrub with pure white
fragrant flowers, borne singly in leaf-axils or paired, appearing with
or before the leaves. Flowers are 2.5-3.7 cm across; flower-tube
funnel-shaped 1.3-1.8 cm, petals ovate-oblong, spreading. Calyx has 5
broad indistinct teeth divided into numerous linear segments. Leaves
are opposite, ovate-elliptic long-pointed, papery, hairless, 5-12.5
crn, suddenly contracted into short leaf-stalks; stipules awl-shaped.
Fruit is a black drupe about 1.3 cm. Bengal Coffee is found in the
Himalayas, from Uttarakhand to Bhutan, NE India, Burma, at altitudes of
300-900 m.
Flowering: March-May.
| Identification credit: Amber Srivastava | Photographed in Botanical Survey of India, Dehradun. |
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