| Burma Lancewood |
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| File size | 475813 |
| Original date | 8/7/08 9:52 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 5.35mm |
| Exposure time | 1/40s |
| Aperture | 2.8 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | SONY |
| Camera model | DSC-W110 |
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Botanical name: Homalium tomentosum Family: Salicaceae (Willow family)
Synonyms: Blackwellia tomentosum, Homalium propinquum, Blakwellia spiralis
Synonyms: Blackwellia tomentosum, Homalium propinquum, Blakwellia spiralis
Burma Lancewood is a deciduous medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall. Trunk is
well-shaped, up to 40 cm in diameter, buttressed. Leaves are broadly
obovate to obovate-oblong, 7.5-15 cm long, 4-7 cm braod, shallowly
glandular-toothed, dull, smooth above, velvety below. Flower-racemes are
simple or rarely 1-2-partite near the base, yellowish velvety. Flowers
arise in 2-5-flowered glomerules. Flowers are 5-6-merous, sessile or
nearly so, sepals and petals woolly, stamens solitary, inserted before
each petal. Burma Lancewood is found in NE India through Burma and
Indo-China towards central Thailand.
| Identification credit: Amit Kumar, Mangaleshwar Sharma, Saroj Kasaju | Photographed in FRI, Dehradun & Punjabi University, Patiala. |
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