| Bracted Heliotrope |
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| File size | 194223 |
| Original date | 12/31/17 4:02 PM |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 11.0 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Heliotropium bracteatum Family: Boraginaceae (Forget-me-not family)
Synonyms: Heliotropium laxiflorum, Heliotropium zeylanicum Wall.
Synonyms: Heliotropium laxiflorum, Heliotropium zeylanicum Wall.
Bracted Heliotrope is an erect herb, upto 50 cm tall,
with branchlets velvet-hairy. Leaves are 3-4 x 0.5 cm,
linear-lanceshaped, tip pointed, base wedge-shaped, margin curled;
leaf-stalk to 4 mm. Flowers are bonre in cymes at branch-ends. Flowers
are white, sepals 5, 2.5 mm, ovate-obovate; flower 2.5 mm across,
flat-faced, petals up to 1.5 mm, broadly ovate; stamens 5, anthers to 1
mm, ovate-heart-shaped, ovary spherical. Drupes are 2 mm across,
4-lobed, hairy; seeds spherical. Bracted Heliotrope is found in India,
Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Australia. Flowering: July-December.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Nilambur, Distt. Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. |
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