| Chinese Glory Bower |
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| File size | 217215 |
| Original date | 7/5/05 1:12 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/147s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Photo: Tabish |
Botanical name: Clerodendrum chinense Family: Verbenaceae (verbena family)
Synonyms: Clerodendrum fragrans, Clerodendrum philippinum
Synonyms: Clerodendrum fragrans, Clerodendrum philippinum
Chinese glory bower is a perennial shrub 0.5-1.2 m
tall. Branchlets are nearly 4-angled to round, velvet-hairy when young,
becoming hairless. Leaf-stalks are 3-17 cm, velvet-hairy to woolly; leaf blade
broadly ovate to somewhat-heart-shaped, 9-22 x 8-21 cm, below velvet-hairy
especially on veins and with several large glands near base, above
bristly, base flat, broadly flat, or somewhat heart-shaped, margin sparsely
irregularly toothed, tip tapering. Flowers are borne at branch-ends, in dense
corymb-like cymes. Flower-cluster-stalk is woolly; bracts lanceshaped, 1.5-3
cm; velvet-hairy, with several large glands. Flowers are single or double,
fragrant. Sepal-cup is 1.5-2.5 cm, deeply 5-lobed, velvet-hairy, with
several large glands; sepals linear-lanceshaped or lanceshaped, 0.7-1.6
cm. Flowers are white, pinkish, or red, lobes elliptic or ovate.
Chinese glory bower is native to Andaman Is., Assam, Bolivia, Cambodia,
China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Jawa, Lesser Sunda
Is., Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera,
Thailand, Vietnam.
| Identification credit: R.K. Nimai Singh | Photographed in Manipur. |
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