| Black-Flowered Varnish Tree |
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| Original date | 3/14/16 9:37 AM |
| Resolution | 1600 x 1200 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 1000D |
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Botanical name: Holigarna nigra Family: Anacardiaceae (Cashew family)
Black-Flowered Varnish Tree is a tree, up to 30 m
high, bark 5-6 mm thick, grey, smooth; exudation black. Leaves are
simple, alternate, estipulate; leaf-stalk 20-25 mm long, stout,
hairless; spur 2 or 4, falling off; blade 7.5-15 x 3.7-5 cm,
spoon-shaped, not suddenly broadened above the base, base wedge-shaped,
tip blunt or notched, margin entire, dark green, hairless, leathery;
lateral nerves 6-9 pairs, parallel, prominent; intercostae netveined,
prominent. Flowers are polygamous, purple-white, in at branch-ends and
in leaf-axils dark purple brown woolly racemes and panicle of 30.5 cm
long in males and 7.5 cm long in female flowers; flower-stalks stout;
calyx hairy, cup-shaped, lobes 5; petals 5, white within, clothed with
white hairs; stamens 5, filaments white, anthers black; disc 5 lobed;
ovary inferior, obconic, woolly, 1-celled; styles 3, recurved; stigma
capitate. Fruit is a drupe, 4 x 1.5 cm, obovoid, hairless.
Black-Flowered Varnish Tree is endemic to Western Ghats. Flowering:
March-May.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Agumbe, Karnataka. |
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