| Ceylon Green Champa |
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| File size | 164084 |
| Original date | 3/16/13 5:17 PM |
| Resolution | 1000 x 750 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 44.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/50s |
| Aperture | 3.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Artabotrys zeylanicus Family: Annonaceae (Sugar-apple family)
Ceylon Green Champa is a woody climber, with velvet-hairy branchlets.
Leaves are oblong-elliptic or lanceshaped, 10-15 cm long, 3.5-7 cm wide,
carried on 4 mm long stalk. Leaves are pointed or with tapering blunt
tips, hairless. Flowers are covered with brownish velvet-hairs. They are
carried on 1.2 cm long velvet-hairy stalks. Sepals are 6 mm long,
velvety, as broad as long. Petals are 3-3.7 cm long, inner ones shorter
and narrower. Flower limb is flat lanceshaped. Ceylon Green Champa is
found in forests of Karnataka, Kerala and Sri Lanka.
Flowering: December-January.
| Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed in Yana, Karnataka. |
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