| Climbing Croton |
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| File size | 536002 |
| Original date | 4/28/17 2:51 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 105.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/1250s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D7100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Croton caudatus Family: Euphorbiaceae (Castor family)
Synonyms: Croton drupaceus, Croton racemosus
Synonyms: Croton drupaceus, Croton racemosus
Climbing Croton is a climbing shrub with leaves up
to 11x 6 cm, ovate, tapering, irregularly rounded toothed, heart-shaped
at base, sparsely star-shaped hairy; leaf-stalk 2-3.5 cm long, densely
star-shaped hairy, stipule 15 mm long, divided into 2-5 linear lobes.
Flowers are borne in racemes up to 20 cm long, densely woolly. Female
flowers are flower-stalkled, 8 mm across; sepals lanceshaped; petals
hispid; ovary densely star-shaped hairy, style linear, not divided, 6
mm long. Male flowers are many; sepals ovate; petals similar to sepals;
torus densely hairy; stamens many, filaments, hairless. Capsule 20 x 17
mm, obovoid, retuse, densely star-shaped hairy. Climbing Croton is
found in Indo-Malesia, and also in the Eastern Himalayas, from Nepal to
Sikkim, at altitudes of 270-1200 m.
| Identification credit: Siddarth Machado | Photographed in Mariani, Assam. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,