| False Hemp Tree |
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| File size | 518025 |
| Original date | 3/20/11 2:25 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 45.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/400s |
| Aperture | 4.5 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Panasonic |
| Camera model | DMC-G1 |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Tetrameles nudiflora Family: Tetramelaceae (False hemp family)
Synonyms: Anictoclea grahamiana, Tetrameles grahamiana
Synonyms: Anictoclea grahamiana, Tetrameles grahamiana
False Hemp Tree is a large, buttressed, deciduous tree, growing up to 40 m
tall. Bark is greyish white, smooth; blaze cream. Branchlets are round,
warty. Leaves are arranged alternately, spirally, crowded at twig ends.
Leaf stalk is up to 10 cm long, velvety. Leaves are up to 12 x 10 cm,
broadly ovate to rounded, long-pointed, base heart-shaped, irregularly
toothed, somewhat leathery, hairless above, velvety beneath, 3-5 nerved at
base. Flowers are unisexual, dioecious. Male flowers are borne in velvety
panicles, greenish-yellow, stalkless. Female flowers are stalkless, in
spikes. Capsule is faintly 8-ribbed, glandular, urn-shaped, 0.4 cm long;
seeds many, minute. False Hemp Tree is found at altitudes of 200-500 m in
forests in tropical Himalayas (Nepal to Bhutan), large parts of India,
Ceylon, Burma, Indo-China, Malaysia east to the Moluccas.
| Identification credit: Shrikant Ingalhalikar | Photographed at Phansad Wildlife Sanctuary, Maharashtra. |
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