| Bengal Loquat |
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| File size | 747211 |
| Original date | 8/4/18 11:02 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 13.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7000 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Eriobotrya bengalensis Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Synonyms: Mespilus bengalensis, Photinia bengalensis, Pyrus bengalensis
Synonyms: Mespilus bengalensis, Photinia bengalensis, Pyrus bengalensis
Bengal Loquat is a large robust tree with elliptic or
elliptic-oblong to lanceshaped leaves, 10-20 cm long, carried on stout
or slender stalks 1.2-3.5 cm long. Leaves are coarsely toothed, quite
hairless, shining above, nerves 8-12 pairs. Flowers are borne in
panicles, 7-12 cm long and broad, branched from the base, branches
rather stout. Flowers are about 8 mm across, white, smelling of
hawthorn. Petals are round, claw slightly woolly. Sepal-tube is
obconic, sepals pointed or blunt. Fruit is 1.8 cm long, ellipsoid,
1-2-seeded. Bengal Loquat is found in East Himalaya, NE India to SE
Asia, at altitudes of 800-2000 m.
Flowering: July-September.
| Identification credit: M. Sawmliana | Photographed in Ailawng area, Aizawl district, Mizoram. |
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