| Colored Jungle Basil |
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| File size | 101549 |
| Original date | 5/30/09 5:37 PM |
| Resolution | 660 x 495 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire |
| Focal length | 105.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
| Focus Distance | 0.0m |
| Metering Mode | Spot |
| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D100 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Platostoma coloratum Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Synonyms: Geniosporum coloratum, Plectranthus coloratus, Ocimum coloratum
Synonyms: Geniosporum coloratum, Plectranthus coloratus, Ocimum coloratum
Colored Jungle Basil is a shrub about 2 m tall, with
stems erect, scaly finely velvet-hairy. Leaf-stalks are less than 1 cm;
leaf blade ovate-lanceshaped to lanceshaped, 5-8 × 2-3 cm, scaly finely
velvet-hairy, base wedge-shaped, margin sawtoothed, tip tapering.
Bracts ovate, less than 1 cm. Calyx about 2 × 1 mm, velvet-hairy,
constricted at throat. Flower white with purple spots, about 5 mm,
sparsely velvet-hairy, throat bell-shaped dilated, densely
velvet-hairy, tube about 4 mm, limb nearly 2 lipped; upper lip 4-lobed,
middle 2 lobes somewhat smaller than outer lobes; lower lip narrowly
lanceshaped. Anterior stamens longer; filaments base slightly dilated,
sparsely finely velvet-hairy; anthers ovoid. Nutlets dark brown, ovoid,
tip finely bristly. Colored Jungle Basil is found in shady valleys,
thickets, in the Himalayas, from Garhwal to Bhutan, NE India, Bengal,
Burma, SW. China and Indo-China, at altitudes of 150-1600 m.
Flowering: September-October.
| Identification credit: J.M. Garg | Photographed in Gori Valley, Uttarakhand. |
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