| Blunt-Leaf Cranberry |
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| Original date | 5/13/18 11:08 AM |
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| Flash | Flash fired, return detected |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 16.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D3200 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Vaccinium retusum Family: Ericaceae (Blueberry family)
Synonyms: Thibaudia retusa
Synonyms: Thibaudia retusa
Blunt-Leaf Cranberry is a dwarf, evergreen shrub,
often growing on other trees, about 30 cm tall. Flower are urn-shaped,
white with 5 red stripes below, about 0.5 mm; lobes small. Stamens are
shorter than flower. Flowers are borne in virtually branch-end racemes
3-5 cm long, about 12-flowered. Axis is densely velvet-hairy to
hairless; bracts ovate-round, about 1.1 cm. Flower-stalks are about 3
mm, hairless. Hypanthium is about 1.3 mm, hairless; sepals 0.8-1 mm,
with marginal hairs. Twigs are spreading, angled, densely velvet-hairy
when young, becoming hairless. Leaves are dense; leaf-stalk 2-3 mm,
velvet-hairy; leaf blade elliptic or obovate, 2-2.5 x 0.9-1.4 cm,
leathery, almost hairless, base wedge-shaped, tip rounded, often
notched. Berries are 10-celled, black-purple, about 5 mm in diameter.
Blunt-Leaf Cranberry is found in Eastern Himalaya, from Nepal to NE
India, N. Burma, at altitudes of 1400-3600 m.
| Identification credit: Saroj Kasaju | Photographed in Sandakphu, West Bengal. |
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