| Elliptic-Leaved Schefflera |
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| File size | 170372 |
| Original date | 5/29/11 10:11 AM |
| Resolution | 976 x 732 |
| Flash | Flash fired, red-eye reduction |
| Focal length | 6.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/500s |
| Aperture | 7.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Center weighted average |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot S5 IS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Heptapleurum ellipticum Family: Araliaceae (Ivy family)
Synonyms: Sciadophyllum ellipticum, Paratropia elliptica, Schefflera elliptica
Synonyms: Sciadophyllum ellipticum, Paratropia elliptica, Schefflera elliptica
Elliptic-Leaved Schefflera is shrubs or small tree, up to 10 m tall,
sometimes climbing or growing on other trees. Leaf-stalk is 4-14 cm long,
carrying digitately compound leaves. Leaflets are elliptic to oblong or
obovate, 11-16 × 4-6 cm, leathery, both surfaces hairless, tip pointed to
long-pointed. Stalks of the leaflets are 2-5 cm long. Flowers are borne in
panicle of umbels at the end of branches. Inflorescence issparsely to
densely hairy when young, later hairless. Primary axis is 4-30 cm,
secondary axes up to 18 cm. Flower-stalks are 2-3 mm long. Calyx is
obscure. Ovary 5-carpellate; stigmas 5. Fruit is ovoid to ellipsoid or
round, 3-4 mm, 5-ribbed when dry; disk broadly conic to pyramidal.
Elliptic-Leaved Schefflera is native to China, SE Asia, NE India and
Australia, cultivated for ornamental purposes. Flowering: March-July.
| Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed near Ramnagar, Karnataka. |
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